Amasa Norcross

Amasa Norcross ( born January 26, 1824 in Rindge, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, † April 2, 1898 in Paris) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Amasa Norcross attended the common schools and the Appleton Academy. After a subsequent law degree in 1847 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Worcester in this profession. Later he hit as a member of the Republican Party also a political career. In the years 1858, 1859 and 1862, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Between 1862 and 1873 he worked for the tax authority. After that, he was in 1873 and 1874 Mayor of Fitchburg. In 1874 he became a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Norcross was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Julius Hawley Seelye on March 4, 1877. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 three legislative periods. In 1882 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Amasa Norcross practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 2, 1898 during a visit to his daughter in the French capital Paris and was buried in Worcester.