At 11 years, on February 10,1957, Leonard Ross won $64,000 on The $64,000 Challenge.
19 Facts About Leonard Ross
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At 14 years, Leonard Ross was graduated from high school and immediately matriculated at Reed College.
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In 1963, at the age of 18 years, Leonard Ross entered Yale Law School.
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Leonard Ross began seeing a psychoanalyst to manage his neurotic tendencies.
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Leonard Ross graduated at 20 years, and went on to study at Yale's graduate school of economics for three years.
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Leonard Ross was awarded a teaching fellowship at Harvard in the early 1970s.
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Leonard Ross then went on to teach at Columbia Law School.
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Leonard Ross became involved in politics and held positions of public service.
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In 1975, Leonard Ross accepted an appointment to the California Public Utilities Commission under Brown, making him one of the youngest members of the commission.
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The appointment was to last six years, but Leonard Ross resigned after just two.
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Leonard Ross then went on to serve President Jimmy Carter in the State Department.
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Leonard Ross resigned from this position after one year and slipped into a deep depression.
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Upset about a failed romance, Leonard Ross attempted suicide and was admitted to McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric clinic outside Boston.
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Leonard Ross resigned from the faculty in 1984 following a brief stay in the hospital after students found him under his car, rehearsing his lecture, in the parking lot of the school.
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Leonard Ross then went on to work for a small law firm in San Francisco, where he was to be the "idea man" with no strenuous legal work, but the deterioration of his mind made concentrating an impossible task.
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Leonard Ross's life unraveled as his mood swings and impatience with himself and the world became uncontrollable.
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Leonard Ross was aware his mental state was deteriorating and aggressively sought out physical solutions for his mental ailments.
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Leonard Ross's friends lent him money and tried to find him jobs that were better suited for his mental state.
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On May 1,1985, at 39 years, Leonard Ross committed suicide in the pool of Capri Motel in Santa Clara, California.