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When U.S. Senator Russell B. Long retired, Ross entered the primary in September 1986 to choose a successor. He finished far to the rear, as two members of the United States House of Representatives, Republican W. Henson Moore, III, of [[Baton Rouge]] and Democrat John B. Breaux of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish, secured general election berths. Breaux went on to defeat Moore and held the seat for eighteen years until he retired in January 2005.  

When U.S. Senator Russell B. Long retired, Ross entered the primary in September 1986 to choose a successor. He finished far to the rear, as two members of the United States House of Representatives, Republican W. Henson Moore, III, of [[Baton Rouge]] and Democrat John B. Breaux of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish, secured general election berths. Breaux went on to defeat Moore and held the seat for eighteen years until he retired in January 2005.  

In October 2002, Ross ran for mayor of Mangham, but he polled only ten votes, or 7 percent of the total against the incumbent [[Democrat]], Robert Neal Harwell, who received 141 votes (93 percent). Ross had quarreled with Harwell and the town council over water-related issues when he made his mayoral bid. In 1990, a Republican, Royce Vernon Lowery, was elected to the Mangham Town Council, while the Republican Mayor [[Frellsen Reese]] was retiring after a decade in the position. In addition to Lowery, the council then had two Democratic members and two no-party aldermen.  

In October 2002, Ross ran for mayor of Mangham, but he polled only ten votes, or 7 percent of the total against the incumbent [[Democrat]], Robert Neal Harwell, who received 141 votes (93 percent). Ross had quarreled with Harwell and the village council over water-related issues when he made his mayoral bid. In 1990, a Republican, Royce Vernon Lowery (born September 1927), was elected to the Mangham village council, while the Republican Mayor [[Frellsen Reese]] was retiring after a decade in the position. In addition to Lowery, the council then had two Democratic members and two no-party aldermen.  

In 2007, Ross resurfaced with an advertisement in the ''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'' which urged that a candidate, presumably a Republican, step forward to challenge the reelection of Democratic Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Ross listed a mailing address in the ad, but no telephone number or email address. Shortly after Ross' ad appeared, District Attorney James D. "Buddy" Caldwell, Jr., of Tallulah, a Democrat, announced that he would challenge Foti in part as a reaction to Foti's arrest of a doctor and two nurses in connection with deaths in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Foti was narrowly eliminated in the 2007 primary. Caldwell handily defeated Republican Royal Alexander of Shreveport in the November 17, 2007, general election.

In 2007, Ross resurfaced with an advertisement in the ''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'' which urged that a candidate, presumably a Republican, step forward to challenge the reelection of Democratic Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Ross listed a mailing address in the ad, but no telephone number or email address. Shortly after Ross' ad appeared, District Attorney James D. "Buddy" Caldwell, Jr., of Tallulah, a Democrat, announced that he would challenge Foti in part as a reaction to Foti's arrest of a doctor and two nurses in connection with deaths in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Foti was narrowly eliminated in the 2007 primary. Caldwell handily defeated Republican Royal Alexander of Shreveport in the November 17, 2007, general election but was himself unseated in 2015 by Republican [[Jeff Landry]] even after Caldwell had switched parties.

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==