{{Short description|American judge (1863–1945)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = John Wilson Ross |image =File:John_Wilson_Ross.png | caption = John Wilson Ross, circa 1939 |office6 = Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court |appointer6 = |term_start6 = November 13, 1918 |term_end6 = January 6, 1919. |predecessor6 = Alfred Franklin |successor6 = Albert C. Baker | state_senate7 = Arizona | district7 = Cochise County | term_start7 = January 1, 1929 | term_end7 = December 31, 1930 |alongside7 = Fred Sutter |birth_date = November 1863 |birth_place = Berryville, Arkansas, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1945|6|30|1863|11}} |death_place = Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. |alma_mater = |party = Democrat }} '''John Wilson Ross''' (November 1863 – June 30, 1945) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona from November 13, 1918 to January 6, 1919. At 8 weeks, Ross served the shortest tenure in the court's history while his brother, Henry D. Ross, served the longest.<ref>The Arizona Supreme Court: Its 2000–2001 Decisions, 34 Ariz. St. L.J. 369, 373 (2002)</ref>
Ross was appointed by Governor George W. P. Hunt to replace outgoing Justice Alfred Franklin, who'd been defeated in the 1918 primary by Albert C. Baker.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goff |first=John S. |title=Arizona Territorial Officials Volume I: The Supreme Court Justices 1863–1912 |publisher=Black Mountain Press|location=Cave Creek, Arizona |year=1975 |page=140| oclc = 1622668 }}</ref><ref>James W. Byrkit, ''Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921'' (2016), p. 291.</ref> Franklin resigned before the end of his term to take a position as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Arizona–New Mexico District.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1918-10-24/ed-1/seq-8/;words=Franklin+Alfred|title=Alfred Franklin Named Collector of U.S. Revenue|date=October 24, 1918|work=El Paso Herald|page=8}}</ref>
Ross later served in the 9th Arizona State Legislature, representing Cochise County.<ref name=SL>{{cite web | url=http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/azsession/id/58/rec/3 | publisher=State of Arizona | title=Session laws, State of Arizona, 1928, Eighth Legislature, Fifth and Sixth Special Sessions, 1929, Ninth Legislature, First Regular Session| access-date=January 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>[http://apps.azlibrary.gov/officials/Detail.aspx?ID=1216 Arizona Legislators-John Wilson Ross]</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} * [http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/ref/collection/histphotos/id/20640 Arizona Library Photo]
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