Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Lawrence Sullivan Ross

Full Name: Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross
Birth date: September 27, 1838
Death date: January 3, 1898

Terms of Service

Senate, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat

(1) 2-year term; entire Senate went up for reelection in 1882 due to redistricting. Act passed May 3, 1882, 17th Legislature, C.S., ch. 13, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Elected as a democrat, p. 1, 11/4/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(5) 17th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of newly elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/11/1881, p. 1. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

Photograph. L.S. Ross, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.
Photograph. L.S. Ross, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch. Collections of the Archive & History Department of the Texas State Library, Executive Series, Governors' Messages, Coke to Ross (Inclusive), 1874-1891 1916.
Mentioned in Chapter XV, discussion of the election of 1886 and the candidacy of D.C. Giddings; brief discussion of governorship, post-governorship life, and death, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, pp. 95-99. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas 1921.
ROSS, LAWRENCE SULLIVAN [SUL] (1838-1898). Handbook of Texas Online .
United States Army, campaigns against Comanches in September-October 1858. Texas Rangers, Lieutenant and later Captain of Waco Company. Confederate States Army, Colonel, 6th Texas Cavalry; Brigadier General, Ross's Brigade. ROSS, LAWRENCE SULLIVAN [SUL] (1838-1898); ROSS'S BRIGADE, C.S.A. Handbook of Texas Online . Handbook of Texas Online
Governor of Texas 1887-1891. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross, pp. 5-14. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Description of military service, including letters to Captain L.S. Ross from Sam Houston and Edward Clark, pp. 5-14. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross, pp. 7-17. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Description of military service, Captain L.S. Ross, pp. 7-17. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, L.S. Ross, pp. 59-60. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, pp. 109-131. "Ross declined to seek reelection, but a deadlocked nomination convention at Hillsboro chose him and adjourned before he could officially refuse to serve." Ten More Texans in Gray 1980.
Biographical sketch, pp. 94-95. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 15, 24, 91-92, Plate Nos. 27 and 67. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.