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George W. Norris
American politician (1861–1944)
George W. Norris | |
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| In office March 4, 1913 – January 3, 1943 | |
| Preceded by | Norris Brown |
| Succeeded by | Kenneth S. Wherry |
| In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1913 | |
| Preceded by | Ashton C. Shallenberger |
| Succeeded by | Silas Reynolds Barton |
| In office August 1926 – March 3, 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Albert B. Cummins |
| Succeeded by | Henry F. Ashurst |
| Born | George William Norris (1861-07-11)July 11, 1861 York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 1944(1944-09-02) (aged 83) McCook, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican (until 1936) Independent (1936–1944) |
| Spouses | Pluma Lashley (m. 1889; died 1901)Ellie Leonard (m. 1903) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Baldwin University Northern Indiana Normal School |
| Profession | Lawyer |
George William Norris (July 11, 1861 – September 2, 1944) was an American politician from the s
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NORRIS, George William
Columbia University
Oral History Project
New York, NY
Oral History:Discussed in interview with Burton K. Wheeler.
Columbia University
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
New York, NY
Papers:1 official letter (April 15, 1911) in the Woodrow Wilson collection.
Cornell University
Labor Management Documentation
Ithaca, NY
Papers:In American Association for Labor Legislation correspondence, 1925-1930, available on 12 microfilm reels; and anti-injunction legislation materials in Paul F. Brissenden research materials on labor injunctions in New York State, 1898-1940 (bulk 1928-1936).
Cornell University
Rare Books and Manuscript Collections
Ithaca, NY
Papers:Correspondence in Roland and Emily Elkus Crangle scrapbooks, 1898-1955.
Harvard University
Law School Library
Cambridge, MA
Papers:Correspondence in United States, Wickersham Commission records, 1928-1931. Finding aid.
Rutherford B. Hayes Library
Fremont, OH
Papers:1937. 3 items. Correspondence concerning Norris' youth in Sandusky County, Ohio, and remembrances of General J
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Nebraska’s George Norris, the man many consider history’s “greatest United States senator,” was born on July 11, 1861. He served in the Senate for 30 years, from 1913 until 1943. Fiercely independent, George Norris emerged politically as a western agrarian progressive Republican. Yet, throughout the New Deal era, as he regularly collaborated with President Franklin Roosevelt, some optimistically labeled him the “Democrat of Democrats.”
When the Senate established a special committee in 1955 to select five outstanding former members whose portraits would be permanently displayed in the Senate Reception Room, that panel solicited recommendations from 160 distinguished American historians and biographers. More of those scholars recommended George Norris than any of the other 41 names submitted. A definitive three-volume biography, published 30 years ago and the largest ever written about a senator who did not become president, catalogs Norris’ skills as a master of parliamentary maneuvering—from committee room, to cloakroom, to t
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