This is a photograph of Edmund Gibson Ross at age 63. The photograph was taken in Silver City, New Mexico. He was active in Kansas Territory politics and served as a delegate to the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention. He and his brother, William W. Ross, were editors of the "Kansas Tribune" in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Territory. Ross served as the U. S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871. Later, he was appinted Governor of New Mexico Territory by President Grover Cleveland and served from 1885 to 1889.
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