- John N. Norton
John Nathaniel Norton (
May 12 ,1878 -October 5 ,1960 ) was aNebraska Democratic politician.Born on a farm near
Stromsburg, Nebraska on May 12, 1878, he attended Bryant Normal University in Stromsburg. He graduated fromNebraska Wesleyan University in 1901 andUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1903. He served as clerk and recorder ofPolk County, Nebraska from 1906 to 1909. He became mayor ofOsceola, Nebraska from 1908 to 1909. He moved to a farm nearPolk, Nebraska and farmed from 1910 to 1922.He was elected member of the
Nebraska House of Representatives from 1911 to 1918, becoming a member of the State constitutional convention in 1919 and 1920. He was the Democratic nominee forGovernor of Nebraska in 1924 because the then-current democratic governor,Charles W. Bryan , was running for the office of Vice President of the United States. Both he and Charles W. Bryan lost, and Mr. Norton became a Chautauqua and Lyceum lecturer from 1922 to 1927. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929), unsuccessfully running for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress. He then was elected to the Seventy-second Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933) and again unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 against former governorAshton C. Shallenberger .He was a representative and adviser to the
Agricultural Adjustment Administration from June 1933 to December 1936. He became a member of the Nebraskaunicameral legislature from 1937 and 1938, and was a special adviser in theFederal Crop Insurance Corporation inWashington, D.C. from 1939 to 1948. He died inWashington, D.C. on October 5, 1960 and is buried in Swede Plain Cemetery in Polk County. His daughter,Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln was in the motorcade whenJohn F. Kennedy was assassinated and was his personal secretary before then.References
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