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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Monday, January 4, 1993
Ross Bass, Ex-Senator
Ross Bass, who served two years in the U.S. Senate for Tennessee after the death of Estes Kefauver, died on Friday at his home in North Miami. He was 75.
Sen. Bass was under treatment for lung cancer, said his brother, Horace Bass.
Sen. Bass, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House in 1954 and was re- elected four times.
He ran in the special 1964 Senate election to fill the seat of Kefauver, who had died the previous year. Sen. Bass defeated former Gov. Frank Clement in the primary and Howard Baker in the general election.
Sen. Bass sought a full Senate term two years later, but lost the primary to Clement, who lost to Baker in the general election.
History and Archives of the House or Representatives
Ross Bass
BASS, Ross, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born on a farm in Giles County, near Pulaski, Tenn., March 17, 1918; attended the public schools in Middle, Tenn.; graduated from Martin College, Pulaski, Tenn., 1941; served during the Second World War as a captain in the Air Corps; owner of a soft-drink bottling plant, florist and nurseryman 1946-1947; postmaster of Pulaski, Tenn., 1947-1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his resignation November 3, 1964; elected in a special election on November 3, 1964, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to complete the unexpired term caused by the death of Estes Kefauver and served from November 4, 1964, to January 2, 1967; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; owner of consulting firm in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States House of Representatives in 1976; was a resident of Miami Shores, Fla., until his death, January 1, 1993; interment in Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1918 - 1993 (74 years)