William Ross (died September 5, 1830) was an American lawyer and politician.

He was the son of Robert Ross, a Scottishtanner who settled at Rossville, a hamlet inNewburgh, New York. William Ross studied law and gainedadmission to the bar in 1801, and practiced atNewburgh, New York. He married first Mary S. McLean (1787–1812), and then Caroline Middlebrook of Connecticut.

He was a member fromOrange County of theNew York State Assembly in 1808, 1809, and from 1811 to 1814. In February 1811, he was electedSpeaker after the previously elected SpeakerNathan Sanford could not attend the session because of ill health.

From 1815 to 1822, he was a member of theNew York State Senate from the Middle District, and was a member of theCouncil of Appointment in 1816 and 1819.

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• Google BooksThe New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 101, 145, 184 and 301; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• Pioneer Families of Orange County, New York by Bill Reamy (Heritage Books, 2007,ISBN 1-58549-601-4,ISBN 978-1-58549-601-3 ; page 135f)
• "BIG" LITTLE BRITAIN - The James Burnets by Margaret V. S. Wallace, from theOrange County Post on July 2, 1970, page 10

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