The historians the "Famous Five Committee" polled favored George Norris, a Nebraska Republican, but he was still far too controversial to satisfy everyone on the committee and didn't make the cut..
Years of Service: 1913-1937; 1937-1943 Party: Republican; Independent
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
and 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 Robert W. Archbald, judge of the United States Commerce
Court; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1912; reelected in
1918, 1924, and 1930, and as an Independent Republican 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.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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