Norris, George W. (George William), 1861-1944

LC control no.	n 79093121
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Norris, George W. (George William), 1861-1944 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Norris, George William, 1861-1944
Birth date	1861-07-11
Death date	1944-09-02
Place of birth	Clyde (Ohio)
Place of death	McCook (Neb.)
Affiliation	Baldwin University (Berea, Ohio) Valparaiso University. School of Law United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers
Found in	His Peace without hate ... 1943 t.p. (George W. Norris) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, November 7, 2013 (Norris, 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) Wikipedia, November 7, 2013 George W. Norris article (Norris left the Republicans in 1936 since seniority in the minority party was useless, and the Democrats offered him chairmanships. He was re-elected to the Senate as an Independent with some Democratic Party support in 1936)
Associated language	eng