James Albert Gary (October 22, 1833 – October 31, 1920) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the Postmaster General between 1897 and 1898. He spent much of his working life in textile manufacture in the Baltimore, Maryland, region, and was involved with cotton mills along the Patapsco and Patuxent Rivers, including Ely, Guilford, and Laurel, Maryland.
Gary was a prominent member of Baltimore's prestigious Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church and led the movement to establish Babcock Memorial Church there in memory of Brown Memorial's minister, Maltbie Babcock. He also contributed to the construction of a church in Daniels, MD, which was later named in his honor: Gary Memorial United Methodist Church.
Gary had a home in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore and a summer place in Catonsville.
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