Benjamin White Norris

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

Career

Benjamin White Norris attended Monmouth Academy and then graduated in 1843 at Waterville College (now Colby College). Then he taught a semester at Kent's Hill Seminary. He also operated a grocery store in Skowhegan (Maine). Norris also pursued a political career. He took 1848 as a delegate to the Free Soil Convention in part. In the following year he went to California, remained there for a year and then returned to Skowhegan, where he began to study law. His admission to the bar he received in January 1852 in Somerset County, and then insert it into began to practice.

Norris was 1860-1863 worked as a Realtor for the State of Maine. He took 1864 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part. Thereafter, he served in the years 1864 and 1865 as paymaster in the Union Army. Norris was promoted to Major and was additionally from 1 May to 2 August 1865 Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands in Mobile ( Alabama) served as paymaster. He lived until 1872 on a plantation in Wetumpka (Alabama ). During this time he took in 1868 at the Constitutional Convention of Alabama in part. After the resumption of Alabama into the Union, he was elected as a Republican to the 40th Congress, but missed his subsequent re-election to the 42nd U.S. Congress. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 21, 1868 to March 3, 1869.

Norris died in 1873 in Montgomery, his body was then transferred to Skowhegen, where he was buried in the South Cemetery.