John Munford Gregory

John Munford Gregory was a US political figure and Acting Governor of Virginia in 1842-43.

Biography

Gregory was born in Virginia on July 8, 1804, and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1831 to 1840. He served as acting Governor of Virginia in 1842-43 and then as a state court judge. Gregory died on April 9, 1884, and was buried at Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. One of the men that Gregory enslaved, John Dunjee, escaped and became a prominent Baptist preacher.
His home in Richmond after 1849, the Benjamin Watkins Leigh House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.