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George W. Norris

American politician (1861–1944)

George W. Norris

In office
March 4, 1913 – January 3, 1943
Preceded byNorris Brown
Succeeded byKenneth S. Wherry
In office
March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1913
Preceded byAshton C. Shallenberger
Succeeded bySilas Reynolds Barton
In office
August 1926 – March 3, 1933
Preceded byAlbert B. Cummins
Succeeded byHenry F. Ashurst
Born

George William Norris


(1861-07-11)July 11, 1861
York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, U.S.
DiedSeptember 2, 1944(1944-09-02) (aged 83)
McCook, Nebraska, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (until 1936)
Independent (1936–1944)
Spouses

Pluma Lashley

(m. 1889; died 1901)​

Ellie Leonard

(m. 1903)​
Children3
Alma materBaldwin University
Northern Indiana Normal School
ProfessionLawyer

George William Norris (July 11, 1861 – September 2, 1944) was an American politician from the s

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

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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