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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NebraskaGeorge William NORRIS
(1861-1944)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1943Party: Republican;
IndependentNORRIS, George William, a
Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near
Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, on July 11, 1861; attended the
district schools, Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and the Northern
Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso; taught school while studying
law; graduated from the law department of Valparaiso (Ind.)
University in 1883 and was admitted to the bar the same year;
continued teaching until he moved to Beaver City, Furnas County,
Nebr., in 1885; engaged in the practice of law; county attorney of
Furnas County for three terms; district judge of the fourteenth
district 1895-1902; moved to McCook, Red Willow County, Nebr., in
1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); did not seek
renomination in 1912, having become a candidate for Senator; one of
the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to
conduct the impeachment proceedings against Judge Robert W.
Archbald; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1912; reelected in 1918, 1924, and 1930, and as an Independent in
1936, and served from March 4, 1913, to January 3, 1943;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; chairman, Committee
on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Sixty-fifth Congress),
Committee on Patents (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth
Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Sixty-ninth through
Seventy-second Congresses); known as the “father of the
TVA,” the first of that project’s dams was named Norris
Dam; retired from public life; died in McCook, Nebr., September 2,
1944; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Lowitt, Richard. George W. Norris: Persistence of
a Progressive, 1913-1933. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1971; Norris, George. Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of
George W. Norris. 1945. Reprint. New York: Collier Books,
1961.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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