Benjamin White Norris

Benjamin White Norris

Benjamin White Norris (born January 22, 1819 in Monmouth , Kennebec County , Massachusetts , † January 26, 1873 in Montgomery , Alabama ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Born in what is now Maine , Benjamin Norris attended Monmouth Academy and then graduated from Waterville College (now Colby College ) in 1843 . Then he taught at Kents Hill Seminary for a semester . He also ran a grocery store in Skowhegan, Maine. Norris also had a political career. In 1848 he participated as a delegate at the Free Soil Convention. In the following year he went to California , stayed there for a year and then returned to Skowhegan, where he began law study. He was admitted to the bar in Somerset County in January 1852 and began practicing there.

Norris was a real estate agent for the State of Maine between 1860 and 1863. In 1864 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention . He then served in the Union Army as paymaster in 1864 and 1865 . Norris was promoted to major and was also from May 1 to August 2, 1865 in the Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands in Mobile, Alabama as paymaster. He lived on a plantation in Wetumpka, Alabama , until 1872 . During this time he attended the 1868 Constituent Assembly of Alabama. After Alabama was re-accepted into the Union, he was elected as a Republican in the 40th Congress , but missed his subsequent re-election in the 42nd Congress . He served in the US House of Representatives from July 21, 1868 to March 3, 1869.

Norris died in Montgomery in 1873. His body was then transferred to Skowhegan, where he was buried in South Cemetery .

Web links

• Benjamin White Norris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin White Norris in the database of Find a Grave (English)