Thomas R. Ross
U.S. Congressperson
1788 – 1869
Who was Thomas R. Ross?
Thomas Randolph Ross was a United States Representative from Ohio.
Born in New Garden Township, Pennsylvania, Ross completed preparatory studies. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Lebanon, Ohio, in 1810.
Ross was elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress. He served as chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Lebanon. He lost his eyesight in 1866. He died on his farm near Lebanon, Ohio, June 28, 1869, and was interred in Lebanon Cemetery. His brother-in-law was former Ohio Governor Thomas Corwin, who married his sister Sarah.
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- Born
- Oct 26, 1788
New Garden Township - Also known as
- Thomas Ross
- Lived in
- Lebanon
- Died
- Jun 28, 1869
Lebanon
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on July 23, 2013
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