Ezra C. Gross

Ezra Carter Gross ( born July 11, 1787 Hartford, Vermont, † April 9, 1829 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ezra Carter Gross was born about four years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Hartford, Windsor County and grew up there. During this time he pursued classical antiquity science. In 1806 he graduated from the University of Vermont in Burlington. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1810 and then began to practice in Elizabethtown. Later he worked in Keeseville. His admission as a master on the New York Court of Chancery, he received in 1812. He served in the British -American War and took part in several engagements. Between 1814 and 1821 he held a commission in the National Guard of New York. He was 1815-1819 as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Essex County. In the years 1818, 1823 and 1824 he was Town Supervisor in Elizabethtown.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 for the 16th Congress Gross was in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded John Palmer and John Savage took after March 4, 1819, which had previously together represent the district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He retired after the March 3, 1821 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. He sat in the years 1828 and 1829 in the New York State Assembly. On April 9, 1829, he died in Albany and was then buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Keeseville.