Lewis Williams Ross (October 15, 1827 – November 22, 1902) was an American politician, lawyer, and legal academic.
Lewis Ross was born in Hanover Township, and lived on the family farm until the age of twenty, when he began attending Farmers' College in May 1848.
Ross first came to Iowa in 1856, residing in Cass County and practicing law there from 1858, before moving to Council Bluffs in 1861.
[1][2] Ross was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1863 as a Republican for District 8, at the time encompassing Cass, Fremont, Mills, and Pottawattamie counties.
The same year that Ross stepped down from the Iowa General Assembly, he was reelected a UIowa trustee.