C. Ben Ross


Charles Benjamin Ross was the first Idahoborn Governor of Idaho and an important Idaho political figure throughout the 1930s. Ross served as governor from 1931 until 1937.

One of eight children, Ross was born to cattleman, John M. Ross, and his wife, Jeanette, near Parma, Idaho. He left school after grade six, but at age eighteen, he decided to continue his education and graduated from Portland Commercial College. In 1897 he returned to the family ranch and comanaged it with his brother, W. H. Ross. He married Edna Reavis on February 14, 1900, and together they raised four foster children.

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