Burton Craige Gray (April 1, 1941 – October 27, 1989) was an American

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

, and

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civiliza ...

political theorist. He co-founded

Scientific Time Sharing Corporation Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC) was a pioneering timesharing and consulting service company which offered APL from its datacenter in Bethesda, MD to users in the United States and Europe. History Scientific Time Sharing Corporation ( ...

with Dan Dyer and

Lawrence M. Breed Lawrence Moser "Larry" Breed (July 17, 1940 – May 16, 2021) was a computer scientist, artist and inventor, best known for his involvement in the programming language APL. Career As an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961, he created ...

, a computer software firm in the Washington, D.C. area specializing in the programming language APL.

Biography

Gray was born in

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Winston-Salem is a city in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the List of municipalities in North Carolina, fifth-most populous ...

, and died in

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. He was the son of Gordon Gray and brother of C. Boyden Gray. In 1968, he married Ann Clark. The marriage ended in divorce. He married Dorothy "Deecy" Stephens on November 5, 1988. He was a board member of the

Reason Foundation The Reason Foundation is an American Libertarianism in the United States, libertarian think tank that was founded in 1978. The foundation publishes the magazine ''Reason (magazine), Reason''. Based in Los Angeles, California, it is a nonprofit, ...

and the

Philadelphia Society The Philadelphia Society is a membership organization the purpose of which is "to sponsor the interchange of ideas through discussion and writing, in the interest of deepening the intellectual foundation of a free and ordered society, and of bro ...

. He was a co-founder of the

Federalist Society The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (FedSoc) is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative and Libertarianism in the United States, libertarian legal organization that advocates for a Textualism, textualist an ...

and active in the

Libertarian Party Libertarian Party may refer to: *Libertarian Party (Argentina) * Liberal Libertarian Party * Libertarian Party of Australia * Libertarian Party of Canada ** British Columbia Libertarian Party **Libertarian Party of Manitoba (now Freedom Party of Ma ...

. The Reason Foundation established the Burton C. Gray Memorial Internship in his honor.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Burton C. 1941 births 1989 deaths People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina American political philosophers American libertarians Yale University alumni 20th-century American businesspeople Family of Bowman Gray