Jonathan Ross (senator)

Jonathan Ross ( born April 30, 1826 in Waterford, Caledonia County, Vermont, † February 23, 1905 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. Senate.

Life

After schooling Ross graduated in 1851 from Dartmouth College. He was from 1851 to 1856 director of two high schools in Chelsea and Craftsbury. After graduating law school in 1856, he received his license to practice law; He began to practice in St. Johnsbury. From 1862 to 1863 he was a prosecutor in Caledonia County; between 1866-1870 he was a member of the school board of the state ( Board of Education ). From 1870 onwards, Ross was a judge at the Vermont Supreme Court; 1890 to 1899 he held the chairmanship of Chief Justice.

Ross has been married twice. With his first wife, Eliza Ann Carpenter, whom he married in 1852, he had eight children. Some years after her death he married in 1886 Helen Daggert. On the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in St. Johnsbury both women are buried at his side.

Policy

As a member of the Republican Party, Ross was in 1865 elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont, where he remained until 1867; in 1870 he was a member of the State Senate. Nearly 30 years later, he took his political career again when he was appointed to succeed the late Justin Smith Morrill of his party for United States Senator. This he remained until October 1900. For re-election he did not line up. In the Senate he was chairman of the competent Public Service Committee.

After the policy

After his time in the Senate Ross was from 1900 to 1902 chairman of the board of the state railway department heads.