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 again from 1863 to 1865, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jesse Norton attended until 1835 the Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). Then he moved to Illinois. After a subsequent law degree in 1840 and its recent approval as a lawyer in Joliet, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig party up a political career. In 1847 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention; in the years 1851 and 1852 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Norton was in the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Orlando B. Ficklin on March 4, 1853. After a re-election as a candidate of the short-lived opposition party he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1857 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 he opted not to run again.

Between 1857 and 1862 was Jesse Norton judge in the Eleventh Judicial District of the State of Illinois. Politically, he joined now on the Republican Party. In the elections of 1862 he was appointed as their candidate in the sixth district of the State of re-elected to Congress, where he replaced Anthony L. Knapp on March 4, 1863. Since he resigned in 1864 on a further application, he could spend up to March 3, 1865 just another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. 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 on August 3, 1875 in Chicago.

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