William Gladstone Ross, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician and judge
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About William Gladstone Ross
- William Gladstone Ross (January 14, 1889 – January 14, 1948) was a lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan.
- He represented Moose Jaw City from 1927 to 1929 and from 1934 to 1944 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. He was born near Moose Jaw, the son of George M.
- Ross and Flora McGillivray, and was educated there and at Queen's University.
- Ross then studied law and was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1915.
- In the same year, he married Dorothea L.
- Scott.
- He served on the Moose Jaw City Council.
- In 1917, Ross ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly.
- He was first elected in a 1927 by-election held after William Erskine Knowles was named a judge; he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1929.
- Ross was president of the Moose Jaw Red Cross Society and served on the board of governors for the Moose Jaw General Hospital.
- After leaving politics, Ross was named to the Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench.
- He died of cancer in Rochester, Minnesota.
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