Edmund G. Ross

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Edmund G. Ross (December 7, 1826 – 1907) was an American journalist and politician from Kansas who later governed the New Mexico Territory. Born in Ashland, Ohio, he learned to be a printer and worked as a newspaper editor in Ohio and Wisconsin. He moved to Kansas to join the anti-slavery Free State movement, editing the Topeka Tribune and helping found the Kansas State Record.

During the Civil War, Ross served in the Union Army and rose to major in the 11th Kansas Cavalry. After the war, he returned to Kansas politics and journalism. In 1866 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy and was elected to finish the term, serving until 1871. He is best known for voting to acquit President Andrew Johnson during Johnson's impeachment trial in 1868, a decision that kept Johnson in office by one vote.

Ross left the Senate and later joined the Democratic Party. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of Kansas in 1880. In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him Governor of the New Mexico Territory, a post he held until 1889. He also served as secretary of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration and, in 1896, published a history of Johnson's impeachment. He died in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1907.