Wayne Anthony Ross (born February 25, 1943) is an American
attorney residing in
Alaska
Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...
. In 2009, Ross was nominated to be
Alaska Attorney General
The Alaska Attorney General is the chief legal advisor to the Government of Alaska, government of the State of Alaska and to its List of Governors of Alaska, governor. The Attorney General is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Alaska L ...
by then
Governor
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin (; Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, and author who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nomi ...
. His nomination was rejected by the
Alaska Legislature
The Alaska State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a bicameral institution consisting of the 40-member Alaska House of Representatives (lower house) and the 20-member Alaska Senate (upper house). There a ...
on April 16, 2009.
Ross is a current director of the
National Rifle Association of America
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA has become a prominent Gun politics in the United States, gun rights ...
, and previously served as its vice president.
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Biography
Ross has been active in Alaska politics for decades, running in the Republican gubernatorial primaries twice and serving on Palin's gubernatorial campaign.gun rights
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and against gun control
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Most countries allow civilians to own firearms, bu ...
, and in the pro-life movement
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.
Ross' nomination to be Alaska Attorney General was controversial. In 1993, he wrote a letter to the state bar association
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. , arguing against a law which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. In the letter, Ross wrote: "This bill seems to give extra rights to a group whose lifestyle was a crime only a few years ago, and whose beliefs are certainly immoral in the eyes of anyone with some semblance of intelligence and moral character." He went on to describe gay Alaskans as "degenerates" who engage in "sexual perversion".lima bean
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Origin and uses
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s,
References
1943 births
Alaska lawyers
Alaska Republicans
Living people
Lawyers from Anchorage, Alaska
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