Daniel Sheldon Norton

Daniel Sheldon Norton

Daniel Sheldon Norton (born April 12, 1829 in Mount Vernon , Ohio , †  July 13, 1870 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician who represented the state of Minnesota in the US Senate .

Life

Early life

Daniel Norton was educated at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and served as an infantryman in the Mexican-American War between 1846 and 1848 . After his return to Ohio Norton studied law and gained practical experience between 1850 and 1851 in California and Nicaragua, among other places . In 1852 he was admitted to the bar. In the same year he moved to Minnesota, where he worked as a lawyer first in St. Paul and from 1856 in Winona .

Political career

In 1857 Norton, who was a member of the Republican Party, was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives, where he held a seat until 1860. He also served in the Minnesota Senate from 1861 to 1864 .

When the civil war broke out , he sided with the northern states and successfully ran for a seat in the US Senate in 1864. Norton, who took up his new office on March 4, 1865, was only to hold it for five years. In this capacity he represented Minnesota in 1866 at the National Convention in Philadelphia .

He died in July 1870, at the age of only 41.

Web links

• Daniel Sheldon Norton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)