Ezra Carter Gross (July 11, 1787

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– April 9, 1829

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) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He graduated from the

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in 1806. Then he studied law, was

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in 1810, and practiced first in Elizabethtown and later in

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, both in

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. He was appointed a Master in Chancery in 1812. He served in the War of 1812, and held a commission in the New York Militia from 1814 to 1821. He was

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of Essex County from 1815 to 1819. He was Town Supervisor of Elizabethtown in 1818, 1823 and 1824. Gross was elected as a

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to the

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, holding office from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. He was a member from Essex Co. of the

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in 1828 and 1829, and died during the legislative session in Albany on April 9, 1829. He was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Keeseville.

References

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 70, 206, 208, 277 and 413; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gross, Ezra Carter 1787 births 1829 deaths University of Vermont alumni People from Hartford, Vermont People from Essex County, New York New York (state) state court judges Town supervisors in New York (state) Members of the New York State Assembly American militia officers Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges