The ANB Bio said: "As capstone to his long crusade for freedom of expression, Ross served as national chair of the American Civil Liberties Union (1940-1950). He died at home in Madison, Wisconsin." It is of passing interest to note that Ross's time in Madison coincided with the exclusion of Milton Friedman from the economics department in May/June 1941 on what he and Rose Friedman characterize as anti-Semitic grounds. The details of the incident are richly covered in chapter six of their joint autobiography Two Lucky People: Memoirs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) David Anderson