John N. Norton

John Nathaniel Norton (born May 12, 1878 in Stromsburg , Polk County , Nebraska , † October 5, 1960 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1929 and again from 1931 to 1933 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Norton attended the public schools in his home country and Bryant Normal University in Stromsburg. He then studied until 1901 at the Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln . Between 1906 and 1906 he was an administrative clerk in Polk County. From 1908 to 1909 he was also the mayor of Osceola . Norton ran a farm near Polk between 1910 and 1922 . Politically, Norton was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives ; in 1919 and 1920 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution of Nebraska. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Nebraska.

In the congressional election of 1926 Norton was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced Republican Melvin O. McLaughlin on March 4, 1927 . But since he was defeated by McLaughlin in the next election, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1929 . Two years later, in 1930, he made it back into Congress and was able to spend another term in the House of Representatives between March 4, 1931 and March 3, 1933. For the elections in 1932 he was not nominated again by his party.

Even after his time in Congress, John Norton remained politically active. Between 1933 and 1936 he was a member and advisor to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration , an agency that was founded under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the New Deal program of the federal government and that adjusted agricultural production to the current situation and, if necessary, bonuses for farmers the cutback in production paid off. In this way, a production surplus should be avoided or reduced. Norton was a member of the Nebraska Legislature in 1937 and 1938 . He then acted from 1939 to 1948 as an advisor to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation in the federal capital Washington. He was the father of Evelyn Lincoln , Kennedy's personal secretary, and died in 1960.

Web links

• John N. Norton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John N. Norton in the database of Find a Grave (English)