He graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1806. Then he studied law, was
admitted to the bar in 1810, and practiced first in
Elizabethtown and later in
Keeseville, both in
Essex County, New York. He was appointed a Master in Chancery in 1812. He served in the War of 1812, and held a commission in the New York Militia from 1814 to 1821. He was
Surrogate of Essex County from 1815 to 1819. He was Town Supervisor of Elizabethtown in 1818, 1823 and 1824. Gross was elected as a
Democratic-Republican to the
16th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. He was a member from Essex Co. of the
New York State Assembly in 1828 and 1829, and died during the legislative session in Albany on April 9, 1829. He was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Keeseville. ==References==