Joe Gross
L. W. Gross, was an American politician from the state of Iowa.
Gross was born October 27, 1925, in Fort Morgan, Colorado to Lester and Opal Gross. Joe's father Lester was a younger brother of H. R. Gross. He graduated from Arispe High School in Arispe, Iowa in 1943. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He married Helen Hammans in 1945. He served as a Republican in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1981 to 1983. Gross died August 2, 2004, in Mount Ayr.