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Show GOVERNOR ROSS OF WYOMING DEAD AFTER HARD FIGHT FOLLOWING OPERATION, DEATH RE-LEAVES RE-LEAVES SUFFERING Was Third Democrat to Hold Executive Execu-tive Chair of State of Wyoming; Wyom-ing; State Mourns His Passing Cheyenne, Wyo. Governor William B. Ross of Wyoming, died in Memorial Me-morial hospital here early Thursday morning October second. Governor Ross underwent an operation oper-ation for apper.iiicits at the hospital here last Wednesday. The operation was pronounced successful, but within with-in the last few days his condition became be-came serious, with the development of complications. The executive was stricken scon after he had addressed a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., Tuesday night, September 23. Physicians, who attended Governor P.oss said that phlebitis, an inflam-ation inflam-ation of the veins, had set in three :'.ays ago. Governor Ross was 51 years eld. Governor P.oss was the third Demo crat to be elected to the governorship of Wyoming during the thirty-four years since the territory was admitted admit-ted to statehood. He was elected in 1922 to a four year term, which be-,-an January 1, '1923. He was born ::i Tennessee fifty-one years ago. He came to Wyoming in 1901, a young attorney just out of law school, and pened an office in Cheyenne. So successful was he in practice that within a few years he was elected prosecuting attorney of Laramie county. In 1910 he was the Democratic candidate for representative in congress. con-gress. In 1917 he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, but was defeated in the primary election by a small majority. His election to the governorship in H'22 followed one of the bitterest political campaigns ever waged in Wyoming. Among h'3 most notable official acts were the recommendation recommenda-tion of submission of a constitutional constitution-al amendment providing for a severance sever-ance tax and the calling of a special session of the legislature in July, 1922, to provide farm loans and other needed emergency legislation. The severance tax amendment which he recommended will be submitted to the electorate at the November election It was while pursuing a speaking campaign in advocacy of the proposed amendment that he developed his fatal illness. The death of Governor Ross makes necessary the election of a governoi at the general election November 4, next. Under Wyoming law, the sec retary of state becomes acting governor gov-ernor in the event of the hitter's death. If the governor dies within twenty days of a next general clec tinn, the secretary of state serves n3 acting governor during the remain der of the term to which a deceased governor was elected. |
