Grayson, William
soldier, United States senator, was born in Prince William county, Va. He was appointed aidede-camp to General Washington in 1776; colonel of a Virginia regiment in 1777, and commissioner of the board of war in 1780 and 1781. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1784 to 1787; member of the Virginia convention to consider the federal constitution in 1788, and in 1789 and 1790 was United States senator from Virginia. He died March 12, 1790, at Dumfries, Va.