Ezra C. Gross

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

Career

Ezra Carter Gross was born and raised in Hartford, Windsor County , approximately four years after the end of the Revolutionary War . During this time he pursued classical ancient studies . In 1806 he graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1810 and then began practicing in Elizabethtown . He later worked in Keeseville . He received his master's license at the New York Court of Chancery in 1812. He served in the British-American War and took part in several skirmishes. Between 1814 and 1821 he held an officer license in the New York National Guard . He served as a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Essex County between 1815 and 1819 . He was Town Supervisor in Elizabethtown in 1818, 1823 and 1824 .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1818 for the 16th Congress , Gross was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Palmer and John Savage on March 4, 1819 , who had previously together represented the district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1821 Congress of.

After his time at Congress he went back to his practice as a lawyer. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1828 and 1829 . He died on April 9, 1829 in Albany and was then buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Keeseville.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 70, 82, 206, 208 and 277.

Web links

• Ezra C. Gross in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Ezra C. Gross in the data base of Find a Grave (English)