William B. Ross

William Bradford Ross ( born December 4, 1873 in Dover, Tennessee; † October 2, 1924 in Cheyenne, Wyoming ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party), who was from 1923 to 1924 Governor of the State of Wyoming.

Career

Ross attended school in Nashville, Tennessee. Then he moved in 1901 to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he was a prosecutor by a precedent that he negotiated before the Supreme Court and which concerned the constitutionality of an anti- gambling law, and thereby won erlang awareness. As a result of this case, all state playhouses were closed. In 1905 he was elected district attorney of Laramie County. He ran unsuccessfully in 1917 to a Democratic governor nomination, but in 1922 he was nominated and won the subsequent election. As Governor, he tried to reduce spending by bringing together laid the Executive Departments and empfiehl a Severance License Tax on products, who left the state. He represented his country at the 1924 Democratic National Convention. Some time later, he died the same year, twenty months after taking office, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and was subsequently buried there on the Lake View Cemetery.

He was episcopate, a Freemason and a member of Kiwanis.