John N. Norton

John Nathaniel Norton (* 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 electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Norton attended the common schools and the Bryant Normal University in Stromsburg. Then he 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 mayor of Osceola. Between 1910 and 1922, Norton managed a farm near the village Polk. Politically, Norton member of the Democratic Party. From 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Nebraska; in the years 1919 and 1920 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Nebraska. In 1924, he ran unsuccessfully for the post of governor of Nebraska.

In the congressional elections of 1926, Norton was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Republican Melvin O. McLaughlin replaced on March 4, 1927. But since he was defeated at the next election McLaughlin, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1929. Two years later, in 1930, he made the re-entry into the Congress and could spend between 4 March 1931 to 3 March 1933 another term in the House of Representatives. For the elections of 1932 he was not re-nominated 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 established as part of the New Deal program of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and adapting agricultural production of the current situation and, where appropriate, the farmers premiums for limit production paid off. In order for a production surplus should be avoided or reduced. In the years 1937 and 1938 was a member of the Nebraska Legislature Norton. Thereafter, he served from 1939 to 1948 as a consultant to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation in the federal capital Washington. He was the father of Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary and Kennedy died in 1960.