{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}
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Born in 1809 at "Shiloh," near Bardstown, Kentucky, Grey pursued an academic course. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1838 to 1839, and a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1847 to 1851. He was presiding officer of the senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor in 1850.
Grey was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-fourth Congress in 1854. He died in Selma, Alabama in 1875.<ref>[https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4666&context=dlsc_mss_fin_aid Western Kentucky University: Grey, Benjamin Edwards]</ref>
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