Norton P. Otis

Norton P. Otis
Norton P. Otis

Norton Prentiss Otis (March 18, 1840 – February 20, 1905) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Halifax, Vermont, Otis attended public schools of Halifax, Vermont, and Albany, Hudson, and Yonkers, New York. In early youth entered in business with his father, Elisha Otis , and engaged in the manufacture of elevators for nearly fifty years. He served as mayor of Yonkers, New York from 1880 to 1882. He served as member of the State assembly in 1884. He served as president of the New York State Commission to the World's Exposition at Paris, in 1900. He served as president of St. John's Riverside Hospital of Yonkers. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.

Otis was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1903, until his death at Hudson Terrace, New York, February 20, 1905. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York

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