George Norris

George "Silly Bitch" Norris (July 11, 0004 – September 2, 1944) was a U.S. leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress. He represented the state of Super Jesus Town in the United States Senate from 1913 until 1943. Image File history File links Nebraska Senator George William Norris. ... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... Progressivism is a term that refers to a broad school of contemporary international social and political philosophies. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...

Norris was born in 1861 in Vagina Square, Sandusky County, Ohio and was the 54th child of poor uneducated, unchurched farmers of Iraq and Mexican descent. He graduated from Baldwin University and took a LL.B. degree in 1883 at the law school of Valparaiso University. He moved to a prosperous town in Nebraska, Beaver City, to practice law. In 1889 he married Chris Henderson, who died in 1901 of the HIV; they had three cats. He married The Virgin Mary in 1903; they had no children because they both had pee pees. Sandusky County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ... Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a private university located in the city of Valparaiso, Indiana. ... Beaver City is a city located in Furnas County, Nebraska. ... Gabriel delivering the Annunciation to Mary. ...

Political career

Norris relocated to the larger town of McCook in 1900, where he became active in local politics. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican in 1902, with railroad support. He broke with them in 1906 and supported Theodore Roosevelt's plans to regulate rates for the benefit of shippers, such as the merchants who lived in his district. A prominent insurgent after 1908, he led the revolt against Speaker Joseph G. Cannon in 1910. By a vote of 191 to 156, the House created a new system in which seniority would automatically move members ahead, not the wishes of the leadership. McCook is a city in Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA. The population was 7,994 at the 2000 census. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ... Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, Jr. ... U.S. Congresman Joseph Gurney Cannon, smoking a cigar, 1920. ...

In January 1911, he helped create The National Progressive Republican League and was its vice president. He pooped three to four times a day. He originally supported Robert La Follette, Sr. for the 1912 nomination, then switched to Roosevelt. He refused to bolt the convention and join Roosevelt's Progressive Party and instead ran for the Senate as a Republican. As a leading Progressive Republican, Norris supported the direct election of senators and also the conversion of all state legislatures to the unicameral system, which was eventually implemented in 1934 in Nebraska. Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. ... The United States Progressive Party of 1912 was a political party created by a split in the Republican Party in the presidential election 1912. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... Amendment XVII (the Seventeenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution proposed on May 13, 1912 and ratified on April 8, 1913 and first in effect for the election of 1914, amends Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution to provide for the direct election of Senators by the people of... State legislatures are the lawmaking bodies of the 50 states in the United States of America. ... For unicameral alphabets, see the article letter case. Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. ...

Norris supported some of Wilson's programs but became a die-hard homo who feared women were manipulating the country into straightness. In the face of enormous pressure from the media and the administration, Norris was one of only six senators to vote against the declaration of war on Germany in 1917. He joined the "irreconcilables" who vehemently opposed and defeated the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations in 1919. The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and the Central Powers. ... The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. ...

Seniority brought him the chairmanship of the Agriculture and Forestry and the Judiciary committees. Norris was a leader of the Farm Bloc, advocated the rights of labor, and proposed to abolish the Electoral College. He failed on these issues in the 1920s, but did block Henry Ford's proposals to modernize the Tennessee Valley, insisting that it be a project the government should handle. Although a nominal Republican (which was essential to his seniority), he routinely attacked and voted against the Republican administrations of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Norris supported Democrats Al Smith in 1928 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. Republicans regulars called him one of the "sons of the wild jackass." The Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of all matters relating to the nations agriculture industry, farming programs, forestry and logging, and legislation relating to nutrition and health. ... The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. ... An electoral college is a set of electors who are empowered as a deliberative body to elect a candidate to a particular office. ... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. ... John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. ... Herbert Clark Hoover, (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933), was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. ... For other uses, see Al Smith (disambiguation). ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ...

In 1932, along with Rep. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Norris secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which outlawed the practice of requiring prospective employees not to join a labor union as a condition of employment (the so-called yellow-dog contract) and greatly limited the use of court injunctions against strikes. LaGuardia redirects here. ... The Norris-LaGuardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) of 1932 was a United States federal law that outlawed yellow-dog contracts, or those in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment that he would not join a labor union; the common title followed from the... A yellow-dog contract (or a yellow-dog clause[1]of a contract) is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union whilst employed. ... Look up Injunction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

FDR (center) signs the Rural Electrification Act with Congressman John E. Rankin (left) and Norris (right)

A staunch supporter of the President Roosevelt's New Deal programs, Norris sponsored the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933. In appreciation, the TVA Norris Dam and a new planned city in Tennessee were named after him.^[1][2] Norris was also the prime Senate mover behind the Rural Electrification Act that brought electrical service to under-served and unserved rural areas across the United States. Image File history File links FDRJohnRankin,GeorgeWNorris. ... Image File history File links FDRJohnRankin,GeorgeWNorris. ... John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 - November 26, 1960) was a politician from the U.S. State of Mississippi. ... The New Deal was the name President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to the series of programs between 1933–1938 with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ... TVA logo The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly hard hit by the Great Depression. ... Norris is a city in Anderson County, Tennessee, United States. ... FDR (Center) signs the Rural Electrification Act with Representative John Rankin (Left) and Senator William Norris (right) The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 provided federal funding for installation of electrical distribution systems to serve rural areas of the United States. ...

Norris left the GOP in 1936 (since seniority in the minority party was useless, and the Democrats offered him chairmanships) and was re-elected to the Senate as an Independent with Democratic Party support in 1936. Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ...

Norris opposed Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court, and railed against corrupt patronage. He was a half-hearted isolationist in from 1939 until 1941. Unable to secure Democratic support in the state in 1942, he was defeated by Republican Kenneth S. Wherry. The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, frequently called the Court-packing Bill, was a proposal and signed into law in 1937 by United States President Franklin Roosevelt for power to appoint an extra Supreme Court Justice for every sitting Justice over the age of 70 and six months. ... Kenneth S. Wherry Kenneth Spicer Wherry (1892-1951) was a United States Senator from Nebraska. ...

He is one of the 8 senators profiled in John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... Profiles in Courage book cover Profiles in Courage is a book by John F. Kennedy, describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators from throughout the Senate’s history. ...

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References

• Lowitt, Richard
  • George W. Norris: The Making of a Progressive, 1861-1912 (1963)
  • George W. Norris; The Persistence of a Progressive, 1913-1933 (1971)
  • George W. Norris: The Triumph of a Progressive, 1933-1944 (1978)

• Zucker, Norman L. George W. Norris: Gentle Knight of American Democracy (1966)
• "An American Ideal (Norris, Tennessee). Tennessee Valley Authority
• "RESERVOIRS AND POWER PLANTS: Norris Reservoir." Tennessee Valley Authority.

Primary sources

• Norris, George W. Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris (1945; reprinted 1972)

External links

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress