
Edmund Gibson Ross (7 December 1826 – 8 May 1907) was a US Senator from Kansas (R) from 19 July 1866 to 3 March 1871, succeeding (James H. Lane and preceding Alexander Caldwell) and Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1885 to 1889 (succeeding Lionel Allen Sheldon and preceding L. Bradford Prince).
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Edmund Gibson Ross was born in Ashland, Ohio in 1826, and he served as a US Army Major during the American Civil War before being appointed to the US Senate in 1866 to succeed James Henry Lane. In 1868, he supported President Andrew Johnson during his impeachment trial, and he was the decisive vote in the election. He went on to launch a publication in Coffeyville, Kansas, and he went on to serve as Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1885 to 1889. He died in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1907.