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Show GOVERNOR ROSS OF WYOMING DEM AFTER HARD FIGHT FOLLOWING OPERATION, DEATH RE-LEAVES RE-LEAVES SUFFERING Was Third Democrat to Hold Execu. tlve 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 appendicits 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 soon after he had addressed a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., Tuesday night, September 23. Physicians, who attended Governor Ross said that phlebitis, an inflam-ation inflam-ation of the veins, had set in three r- T,. urao 1 days ago. uovernui iwaa vyc years old. Governor Ross was the third Democrat 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 began be-gan January 1, 1923. He was born in Tennessee fifty-one years ago. He came to Wyoming in 1901, a young attorney just out of law school, and opened 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 1922 followed one of the bitterest political campaigns ever waged in Wyoming. Among his 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. Governor Ross is survived by a widow, who was Miss Nellie Taylor of Missouri, and three sons, George and Ambrose, who are students at the University of Wyoming, and Bradford, a pupil in the Cheyenne public schools. The death of Governor Ross makes necessary the election of a governor at the general election November 4, next. Under Wyoming law, the secretary sec-retary of state becomes acting governor gov-ernor in the event of the latter's death. If the governor dies within twenty days of a next general elec tion, the secretary of state serves as acting governor during the remainder remain-der of the term to which a deceased governor was elected. |