Member Biography
George Ross
Biography
08/24/1841 - 11/19/1894
George Ross (D10) Bucks County 1886-1895
Early Life:
George Ross, born August 24, 1841, Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; son of United States Congressman Thomas and Elizabeth Pawling Ross; Princeton College, New Jersey, graduated, 1861; attorney-at-law 1861-1894; member, constitution convention from Bucks County and Northampton Counties; delegate, Democratic Conventions 1876, 1884 and 1892; appointed, trustee State Hospital for the Insane for Southeastern district, Norristown, from Bucks County; unsuccessful candidate, 7th district congressional, democratic nominee, defeated, 1884 and 1888, elected, democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1886-1895; married, Ellen Lyman Phipps, 1870, six children: Thomas, Elizabeth P., George; Ellen P., Mary; Gertrude.; died, blight disease, home, Ross Mansion, Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1894.(i) (ii)
Pennsylvania Politics:
Unsuccessful candidate, 7th district congressional, democratic nominee, defeated, 1884 and 1888,
Elected, democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 10th district, Bucks County, 1886-1895; member Congressional Apportionment, Elections, Insurance, Judiciary General, Judiciary Special, Public Buildings, Library, and New Counties and County Seats Committees.
Legacy:
Grandfather John Ross, elected, Republican, Eleventh Congress; elected, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses, resigned, 1818, president judge of the seventh judicial district of the State; transferred, State supreme bench, 1830-1834.
Father, Thomas Ross, United States Congressman, Bucks and Lehigh counties, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851.
The Ross Mansion was torn down in 1897 and replaced with the Doylestown National Bank.(iii)
Cited:
Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1888) Cochran, T.B., Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 645, 670, 676-678.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Tuesday November 20, 1894, Page 7
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https://patch.com/pennsylvania/doylestown/what-ever-happened-to-the-ross-law-office