Jesse O. Norton

Jesse O. Norton

Jesse Olds Norton (born December 25, 1812 in Bennington , Vermont , †  August 3, 1875 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . From 1853 to 1857 and from 1863 to 1865 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jesse Norton attended Williams College in Williamstown ( Massachusetts ) until 1835 . Then he moved to Illinois. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1840, he began to work in this profession in Joliet . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Whig Party . In 1847 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; in 1851 and 1852 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives .

In the congressional elections of 1852 Norton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Orlando B. Ficklin on March 4, 1853 . After being re-elected as a candidate for the short-lived opposition party , he was able to complete two terms in Congress by March 3, 1857 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . In 1856 he declined to run again.

Between 1857 and 1862, Jesse Norton was a judge in the Eleventh Judicial District of Illinois. Politically, he now joined the Republican Party . In the elections of 1862 he was re-elected as their candidate in the sixth district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Anthony L. Knapp on March 4, 1863 . Since he waived another application in 1864, he could only spend one more term in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1865. This was determined by the events of the civil war.

In August 1866, Jesse Norton was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia . Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Chicago on August 3, 1875.

Web links

• Jesse O. Norton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jesse O. Norton in the database of Find a Grave (English)