Ross was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He went to Washington University as an undergraduate and went to Harvard Law School for his law degree.[2][3] For four years he was a professor at the New York University School of Law, before becoming a White House staff assistant in 1967.[3][2] From August 1967 to early 1968, he served as the Executive Director of the President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas.[4] Thereafter and until 1969, he was the General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury.[5] After resigning from the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, he began a law firm with Joseph A. Califano.[2]
Ross was married to his wife, Dorothy, for sixty-two years. He had two children and two grandchildren. Ross died of heart failure on August 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C., at age 88.[3]
^President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas (1968). Meeting The Insurance Crisis Of Our Cities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. ii–iii.
