Henry H. Ross

Henry Howard Ross ( born May 9, 1790 in Essex, New York, † September 14, 1862 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Howard Ross was born about seven years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Essex, Essex County and grew up there. He was taught by private tutors. In 1808 he graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Essex. During the British - American War he served as a Second Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 37th Infantry Regiment of the National Guard of New York. He participated in the Battle of the Bouquet River at Willsboro and in part in the Battle of Plattsburgh. Thereafter, he was promoted to Major General.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams Group. In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress Ross was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Richards on March 4, 1825. He retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Essex again his work as a lawyer after. He was in the years 1847 and 1848 district judge in Essex County. In 1848 he ran as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Whig party. He then worked as a lawyer again. On September 14, 1862, he died in Essex and was buried there in a tomb on his family estate " Hickory Hill ".