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May 11, 2015: WTVA: Glance at candidates in Mississippi congressional election
Henry Ross, 58, of Eupora, Republican. Occupation: Attorney, former mayor and former circuit judge. Campaign website: http://henryrosscongress.com/ Previous campaigns: Ross was elected Eupora mayor in 1997 after having been appointed to complete the term of a circuit judge who retired. He ran unsuccessfully for the 1st District seat in 2010 and 2012. "Congress has gotten our government to be massive. They have become involved in every aspect of everything in America. Educators, business people, manufacturers, health care people are all strangled by the federal government," Ross said during the forum at Ole Miss. |
May 9, 2015: Clarion Ledger: Salter: Shrill tone of CD01 race likely script for 2016
For the record, the Republican contenders include: businessman Boyce Adams of Columbus; former Airbus Helicopters executive Sam Adcock of Starkville; state Sen. Nancy Collins of Tupelo; Tupelo dentist Dr. Edward "Doc" Holliday; emergency room physician and budding novelist Dr. Starner Jones of Pontotoc; Lee County District Attorney Trent Kelly of Saltillo; Itawamba County Prosecutor Michael "Chip" Mills, Jr. of Fulton; Tupelo attorney Greg Pirkle; former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross; Oxford attorney Daniel Sparks; Northern District Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert of Starkville; former Jackson City Councilman Quentin Whitwell of Oxford. The lone Democratic contender is Walter Zinn Jr. of Pontotoc.
For the record, the Republican contenders include: businessman Boyce Adams of Columbus; former Airbus Helicopters executive Sam Adcock of Starkville; state Sen. Nancy Collins of Tupelo; Tupelo dentist Dr. Edward "Doc" Holliday; emergency room physician and budding novelist Dr. Starner Jones of Pontotoc; Lee County District Attorney Trent Kelly of Saltillo; Itawamba County Prosecutor Michael "Chip" Mills, Jr. of Fulton; Tupelo attorney Greg Pirkle; former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross; Oxford attorney Daniel Sparks; Northern District Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert of Starkville; former Jackson City Councilman Quentin Whitwell of Oxford. The lone Democratic contender is Walter Zinn Jr. of Pontotoc.
Apr 27, 2015: Tea Party Express: Tea Party Express Endorses Henry Ross for Congress in MS-01
“As a concerned citizen and now Chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, I am happy to recommend Henry Ross to voters and the Tea Party Express in this special election for the MS Congressional District 1 special election. I got to know Henry in 2010 when Tea Parties all over the country were forming. As it happened, Tupelo was holding a Tea Party Express event in the town square at which Henry spoke to the crowd as a candidate for this Congressional seat. Henry has a loyalty and understanding of Constitutional governance that is not often found in those seeking any office today. Having served his community in his professional life as well as voluntarily with those principles in mind, he fully is one to be lauded for his continuous service to the people and the principles that made this country great. Not new to politics and known throughout Mississippi, Henry has been active in the Republican party and his community. Henry is a veteran with a fine legal mind, and having served as mayor of Eupora, having run for this Congressional Seat twice, I believe Henry Ross is the best candidate for Congressional District One. Most sincerely I hope Henry prevails as the winner in this special election.” -Laura Van Overschelde, Chairman Mississippi Tea Party
“As a concerned citizen and now Chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, I am happy to recommend Henry Ross to voters and the Tea Party Express in this special election for the MS Congressional District 1 special election. I got to know Henry in 2010 when Tea Parties all over the country were forming. As it happened, Tupelo was holding a Tea Party Express event in the town square at which Henry spoke to the crowd as a candidate for this Congressional seat. Henry has a loyalty and understanding of Constitutional governance that is not often found in those seeking any office today. Having served his community in his professional life as well as voluntarily with those principles in mind, he fully is one to be lauded for his continuous service to the people and the principles that made this country great. Not new to politics and known throughout Mississippi, Henry has been active in the Republican party and his community. Henry is a veteran with a fine legal mind, and having served as mayor of Eupora, having run for this Congressional Seat twice, I believe Henry Ross is the best candidate for Congressional District One. Most sincerely I hope Henry prevails as the winner in this special election.” -Laura Van Overschelde, Chairman Mississippi Tea Party
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Apr 22, 2015: Conservatives4Palin: Mary’s Garden and Henry Ross for Congress
There was a knock at our front door. A courier handed me a package from CCC (Conservative Campaign Committee) with a memory stick inside. “Hello Mr Marcus. Your mission should you choose to accept it is Henry Ross for Congress, Mississippi. As always, should you or any member of our CCC team be caught working to send a true Tea Party conservative to Washington, the GOP will disavow any knowledge of our actions. This memory stick will self-destruct in 30 seconds.”
There was a knock at our front door. A courier handed me a package from CCC (Conservative Campaign Committee) with a memory stick inside. “Hello Mr Marcus. Your mission should you choose to accept it is Henry Ross for Congress, Mississippi. As always, should you or any member of our CCC team be caught working to send a true Tea Party conservative to Washington, the GOP will disavow any knowledge of our actions. This memory stick will self-destruct in 30 seconds.”
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Apr 21, 2015: American Thinker: Mary's garden and Henry Ross for Congress
Ross's bio is excellent – former circuit judge, assistant district attorney, served in the U.S. Navy, was a member of the Navy JAG Corps, was an appointee to G.W. Bush's Justice Department, and graduated from Ole Miss. Apr 21, 2015: Dark Horse Mississippi: Everybody Loves Reagan, Kelly Hates the IRS, Felons Deserve Voting Rights, & Other #MS01 Tupelo Debate Takeaways
Henry Ross: A medical degree so that he can rock some cool Tea Party tropes like Starner Jones and Ed Holliday. ("Pull the plug on Obamacare," "I'm a doctor, not a politician," "Washington is sick, I'm the cure") |
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Mar 12, 2015: NewsMS: Former Eupora Mayor Becomes 11th Person to Run for Nunnelee's Congressional Seat
Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District race now has 11 people who want to try to fill the seat left vacant when Cong. Alan Nunnelee died earlier this year. Former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross announced his candidacy Wednesday. - Jan 9, 2012: Roll Call: Henry Ross Goes for GOP Rematch Against Alan Nunnelee in Mississippi
Freshman Mississippi Rep. Alan Nunnelee pulled a primary challenge today, as former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross declared he would seek a rematch for the GOP nomination in the safe Republican 1st district. |
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Henry Ross, a Eupora native and a fifth generation Webster Countian, has lived and served in Mississippi most of his life. He is a product of Eupora public schools and received his business and law degrees from the University of Mississippi. His wife, the former Anne Booth of Eupora, also attended Eupora public schools, is an Ole Miss alumnus, and completed her graduate work in accounting at Mississippi State. They have three children: Henry, an Ole Miss graduate who works at the Central Service Grill, a family business in Eupora, John, a medical student at the Ole Miss School of Medicine in Jackson who will graduate in May 2015, and Catherine, an interior designer and Miss. State alumnus, who lives with her husband Shawn Davis in Dallas, Texas. Henry and Anne attend and serve with their brother-in-law, Rev. Randy Wilson, in Eupora’s Miracle-Land Mission Church, reaching the under-privileged in the community. Before pursuing other ministry interests, their life-long church home was First Baptist Church of Eupora, where Henry taught Sunday School for 20 years and served as a deacon. Henry has long been a practicing lawyer, having been admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1981. However, his real passion is public service. Early in his career, he clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge J. P. Coleman and later entered service in the U.S. Navy as a JAG Corps officer. After completing three and a half years of active duty in 1987, Henry continued his military service in the U.S. Naval Reserve, retiring at the rank of Commander in 2005. In 2001, he was recognized as one of the nation’s top three Naval Reserve senior JAG Corp officers. The JAG Corps unit he had commanded was also recognized that year by the Naval Reserve as runner-up to the nation’s best. After leaving active duty, Henry worked for nearly four years as the only Assistant District Attorney in Mississippi’s sprawling seven-county 5th Circuit Court District, prosecuting a full range of felony crimes on behalf of the State. In 1993, he was appointed by Governor Kirk Fordice as one of the district’s two Circuit Judges, filling the post vacated by Judge James Sumner. Henry’s reputation was that of a tough but fair judge. Notably, only one case of the many he presided over was reversed by a higher court, underscoring his record of excellence as a jurist. After completing Judge Sumner’s term, he returned to the practice of law for the next several years in Eupora and was elected the city’s mayor in 1997, serving a four year term ending in 2001. His latest opportunity for public service came in 2008, when Henry received a Bush Administration appointment in the United States Department of Justice, serving as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Among his many contributions, he successfully argued on behalf of the United States before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco and assisted with the defense of the Navy’s use of sonar in federal court challenges. He served in this capacity through the completion of President Bush’s second term in January 2009.
Henry ran for the U.S. Congress in Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in the June 2010 and March 2012 Republican primaries. Outspent over four to one in each race and battling entrenched political interests, Henry very narrowly missed a run-off in the 2010 primary. In March 2012, he held the incumbent to the second lowest primary vote percentage (57%) of any Republican returning to the U.S. House that year. Only three Republicans lost their House seats in the 2012 cycle.
Henry Ross, a Eupora native and a fifth generation Webster Countian, has lived and served in Mississippi most of his life. He is a product of Eupora public schools and received his business and law degrees from the University of Mississippi. His wife, the former Anne Booth of Eupora, also attended Eupora public schools, is an Ole Miss alumnus, and completed her graduate work in accounting at Mississippi State. They have three children: Henry, an Ole Miss graduate who works at the Central Service Grill, a family business in Eupora, John, a medical student at the Ole Miss School of Medicine in Jackson who will graduate in May 2015, and Catherine, an interior designer and Miss. State alumnus, who lives with her husband Shawn Davis in Dallas, Texas. Henry and Anne attend and serve with their brother-in-law, Rev. Randy Wilson, in Eupora’s Miracle-Land Mission Church, reaching the under-privileged in the community. Before pursuing other ministry interests, their life-long church home was First Baptist Church of Eupora, where Henry taught Sunday School for 20 years and served as a deacon. Henry has long been a practicing lawyer, having been admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1981. However, his real passion is public service. Early in his career, he clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge J. P. Coleman and later entered service in the U.S. Navy as a JAG Corps officer. After completing three and a half years of active duty in 1987, Henry continued his military service in the U.S. Naval Reserve, retiring at the rank of Commander in 2005. In 2001, he was recognized as one of the nation’s top three Naval Reserve senior JAG Corp officers. The JAG Corps unit he had commanded was also recognized that year by the Naval Reserve as runner-up to the nation’s best. After leaving active duty, Henry worked for nearly four years as the only Assistant District Attorney in Mississippi’s sprawling seven-county 5th Circuit Court District, prosecuting a full range of felony crimes on behalf of the State. In 1993, he was appointed by Governor Kirk Fordice as one of the district’s two Circuit Judges, filling the post vacated by Judge James Sumner. Henry’s reputation was that of a tough but fair judge. Notably, only one case of the many he presided over was reversed by a higher court, underscoring his record of excellence as a jurist. After completing Judge Sumner’s term, he returned to the practice of law for the next several years in Eupora and was elected the city’s mayor in 1997, serving a four year term ending in 2001. His latest opportunity for public service came in 2008, when Henry received a Bush Administration appointment in the United States Department of Justice, serving as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Among his many contributions, he successfully argued on behalf of the United States before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco and assisted with the defense of the Navy’s use of sonar in federal court challenges. He served in this capacity through the completion of President Bush’s second term in January 2009.
Henry ran for the U.S. Congress in Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in the June 2010 and March 2012 Republican primaries. Outspent over four to one in each race and battling entrenched political interests, Henry very narrowly missed a run-off in the 2010 primary. In March 2012, he held the incumbent to the second lowest primary vote percentage (57%) of any Republican returning to the U.S. House that year. Only three Republicans lost their House seats in the 2012 cycle.