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	George Norris - Search View - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George William Norris was born July 11, 1861, in Sandusky County, Ohio, and educated at Baldwin University (now Baldwin-Wallace College) and the Northern Indiana Normal School.
		During this period Norris was the leader of the group of congressmen who, by effecting a change in the House rules in 1910, ended the arbitrary rule of the Speaker of the House in a House revolt against Joseph Gurney Cannon.
		In 1912 Norris was elected to the U.S. Senate.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761554336__1/George_Norris.html (391 words)

	Informat.io on George William Norris
		Norris was born in 1861 in York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio and was the eleventh child of poor uneducated, unchurched farmers of Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
		Norris was also the prime Senate mover behind the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 that brought electrical service to underserved and nonserved rural areas across 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.
	www.informat.io /?title=george-william-norris (787 words)

	more about Senator George Norris State Historic Site
		Norris was born in 1861 in York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.
		Norris instilled in young George a strong religious faith, a respect for education, and a fierce sense of right and wrong.
		Norris had relatives in Nebraska and his mother held the deed to an eighty acre farm in Johnson County, near Tecumseh, Nebraska.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /sites/norris/moreinfo.htm (1650 words)

	Nebraska's George Norris Stood Up For Family Farmers
		Norris was an intense reader and in his later years, often became fatigued after hours of reading documents, probably napping in the same chair Landis found so comfortable.
		Norris was proof, Nelson says, that you don't have to be from a big city to have huge influence in the events of the day.
		Norris was bitterly chided as a traitor for his 1917 opposition of Woodrow Wilson's arming of merchant ships, leaning toward entrance in World War I. Norris believed that war would only line the pockets of big business at the cost of doughboy blood.
	www.foodandsocietyfellows.org /publications.cfm?refID=79236 (2819 words)

	George William Norris Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		George William Norris (1861-1944), U.S. congressman and senator, authored the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and sponsored numerous pieces of Progressive legislation.
		George W. Norris was born on July 11, 1861, in Sandusky County, Ohio.
		Norris was the cosponsor of the Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932), which outlawed labor contracts that made union membership a condition of employment and drastically limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes; and the Norris-Rayburn Act (1936), which made the Rural Electrification Administration permanent.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-william-norris (471 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		GEORGE W. George W. Norris was born July 11, 1861 in Sandusky County, Ohio.
		Norris moved to Nebraska in 1885 and was elected first elected to United States House of Representatives in 1903.
		Senator Norris was defeated in the 1943 election and died in 1944.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/norris_george_w.htm (168 words)

	Document Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George William Norris is considered by some political scholars to be the preeminent example of an effective United States Senator.
		Norris quickly became an influence in south central Nebraska, serving three terms as prosecuting attorney of Furnas County and seven as judge in Nebraska's Fourteenth judicial district.
		George William Norris is perhaps the greatest among a long line of distinguished Nebraska legislators.
	info.neded.org /stathand/parttwo/norris.htm (339 words)

	George Norris
		Norris was admitted to the bar in 1883 and practiced law in Furnas County before being elected district judge (1895-1902).
		Norris twice persuaded Congress to pass this legislation, but both times it was vetoed by the president, first by Calvin Coolidge, and then by Herbert Hoover.
		Norris gradually emerged as the leader of the progressive wing of the party.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAnorris.htm (3018 words)

	The Bulletin Online - Orchids... not Osama
		Norris is accused by the FWS of violation of the Lacey Act: the nation's first far-reaching federal wildlife protection law.
		Norris estimates that the FWS is spending about $100,000 on this investigation so far and are nowhere near through with Norris; his business records have been taken to Albuquerque, New Mexico--despite the fact that no FWS agents have even looked at them yet.
		George Norris is not in jail or even charged with a crime, but his business has been shut down by a governmental agency that has more power than anyone can even fathom.
	www.thebulletin.com /archives/2003/november/orchidsnotosama.htm (1448 words)

	TVA: Norris Reservoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Norris is a popular tourist and recreation destination, and in summer 2005 TVA opened a new visitor center at the dam.
		Norris Reservoir is an important component of the system TVA set up to reduce the risks of these disasters.
		The town of Norris, built to house workers on the dam, was a planned community that became a model for others throughout the nation.
	www.tva.gov /sites/norris.htm (394 words)

	Welcome to the Nebraska Legislature Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Norris, a "New Deal Republican" who settled in McCook, wore out two sets of tires while he drove throughout the state campaigning for the measure.
		The bicameral system was modeled after the British Parliament, Norris said, which is made up of the House of Commons, with representatives elected by the people, and the House of Lords, with its aristocratic members appointed by the king.
		Norris worked to eliminate partisanship in the legislature because he believed that elected officials would stand on their own records.
	www.unicam.state.ne.us /learning/history.htm (1023 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'An astonishing life' — Poet Leslie Norris
		His father George was a tall, athletic man who missed his chance for education and professional training while fighting World War I. He worked as an engineer in the mines until a falling rock broke his back.
		George was innately intelligent in prep school — he won many of the academic prizes — and a voracious reader.
		Norris, who was held spellbound by the mere touch of a sandstone wall and the clouds rolling overhead, still has his antenna up and working.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595056711,00.html (3075 words)

	George William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Norris was born in 1861 in Ohio and after one year at Baldwin University in Ohio, he enrolled in Indiana State Normal School at Valparaiso.
		Norris is credited with planning the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provided flood control and created electricity in the region drained by the Tennessee River.
		Norris wrote and promoted the Nebraska constitutional amendment that created the Unicameral Legislature in Nebraska, which is unique among the 50 states.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/notables/norris.html (563 words)

	Norris Management - George Norris
		George Norris is a Corporate/Executive Coach and Mentor to some of Australia's leading businessmen and women.
		George is also in demand as a Keynote Speaker and Presenter for conferences and workshops in Australia and overseas.
		George is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow and past Councillor of the Australian Marketing Institute and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
	www.georgenorriscorporatecoach.com.au /profile.html (411 words)

	U.S. Senate: Reference Home >
		George Norris, a Republican from Nebraska, first came to national attention in 1910 as a young Representative.
		Norris was an isolationist and a pacifist who felt that Wilson’s bill was a ruse by big business to get the United States into the war in Europe, and believed Wilson was trying to stampede the public into pressuring the Senate to pass his bill and enter the war.
		Norris was the only member of the Nebraska delegation to vote against passage of the bill and he was excoriated on every side.
	www.senate.gov /reference/common/generic/Profiles_GN.htm (538 words)

	George William Norris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norris relocated to the larger town of McCook in 1900, where he became active in local politics.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_William_Norris (827 words)

	Life of George W
		In 1910, when Norris was in his fifth term in the House of Representatives, he launched a campaign to end the autocratic rule of the Speaker of the House, "Boss" Joe Cannon.
		Norris and his family are buried at Memorial Cemetery, three blocks north to "J" Street and 16 blocks west, the east entrance on J Street to the lighted flagpole at the first intersection.
		Norris and Norris’s daughters from his first marriage decided at that time to give the house, its contents and his last car, a 1937 Buick, to the State of Nebraska.
	www.rootsweb.com /~neredwil/georgenorrisbio.htm (949 words)

	TVA: Clash of the Titans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a senator, Norris was perhaps best known for leading a minority faction that opposed America’s entry into World War I. By the politically conservative ’20s, the “Fighting Liberal” was a leader of the dwindling minority of liberal Republicans in the Senate.
		Norris wasn’t terribly interested in the matter, and attempted to use the Senate bureaucracy to channel this headache to a war-appropriations committee.
		Norris believed the power of Wilson Dam should be put to work for the public good, not Henry Ford’s private gain.
	www.tva.gov /heritage/titans/index.htm (1208 words)

	George William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Norris belonged to the tradition of Progressive senators characterized by Robert M. La Follette and Robert F. Wagner.
		Norris ushered through Congress the bill creating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Chairman Arthur Morgan later acknowledged his contribution by naming the dam at Cove Creek in his honor.
		Norris remained devoted to the TVA, and authored the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
	newdeal.feri.org /bios/bio5.htm (198 words)

	Norris George William: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A liberal Republican, Norris secured (1910), through an alliance of insurgent Republicans with Democrats, the passage of a resolution that reformed the House rules and wrested absolute control from the speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon.
		Norris was read out of the Republican party and became (1936) an independent.
		George William Hafer George William Hafer, 88, Venice, died March 21, 2005.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/norris_george_william.jsp (1665 words)

	LASR - McCook, Nebraska - Senator George W. Norris Home
		Built in 1886, the Senator George W. Norris Home is both a state and national historic site focused on the history and vision of Senator George Norris (1861-1944).
		Norris was one of the great independent politicians of American public life in the early 1900s.
		The house was built in 1886 and purchased by District Judge George W. Norris and his wife, Pluma, on Nov. 29, 1899.
	www.lasr.net /leisure/nebraska/redwillow/mccook/att2.htm (373 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1941-1963 > Death of a "Gentle Knight"
		During the Republican administrations of the 1920s, Norris pressed for a progressive agenda that included farm relief, improved labor conditions, conservation of natural resources, and rural electrification.
		During the Depression, Norris worked closely with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who referred to him as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Defeated for a sixth term in 1942, he retired to Nebraska, where he died on September 2, 1944.
		While denied this singular honor, Norris subsequently gained another commendable distinction in becoming one of the few senators in history to be the subject of a three-volume scholarly biography.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Death_of_a_Gentle_Knight.htm (471 words)

	Full Lesson Plan for George Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George W. Norris was a great Nebraskan who was known for his outstanding statesmanship and upstanding character.
		Norris was so well respected in politics, he was included in John F. Kennedy's book Profiles of Courage.
		Norris is the subject of Chapter VII in Part Four of this book.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0800/resources/0800_1050.html (1445 words)

	George Norris - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Norris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Norris, George William (1861-1944), U.S. senator and reformer, known as the creator of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
		Norris, Frank (1870-1902), American novelist, born in Chicago, and educated at the University of California and Harvard University.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /George_Norris.html (89 words)

	North Tonawanda History Museum © G. Norris Miner, M.D. & Family
		George Thomas Miner and Margrete Norris Miner, with their two sons, Carlton Holmes Miner, born April 28, 1909, who became a North Tonawanda dentist, and George Norris Miner, born May 1, 1906, who became a medical doctor.
		In 1949, Norris was named to the National Football Hall of Fame Association for his record as an athlete and his support of the University of Buffalo ’s scholarship program.
		The father of G. Norris and Carlton Miner was born in Rose, New York, (east of Rochester) and married Margrete Norris in 1902 north of Toronto.
	www.nthistorymuseum.org /Collections/minerfamily.html (1218 words)

	Tri-County Project -- George W. Norris and George E. Johnson
		Another influential figure during the efforts to secure federal approval and funds for the project was U.S. Senator George W. Norris of McCook.
		Norris played a pivotal role in guiding the project through the federal government’s bureaucratic maze.
		George Norris, with George E. Johnson observing, pulls the switch at the Jeffrey Hydroplant to bring the plant on line for the first time on Jan. 5, 1941.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0800/stories/0801_0503.html (292 words)

	McCook Daily Gazette: Story : Column by Gene O. Morris
		From the start, Norris' appointment sparked controversy because, in addition to being city treasurer, Norris was a director of the Furnas County Bank (which was a competitor to the Bank of Beaver City) and the principal developer of a project called "Norris Block."
		The mud slinging was typical of political campaigns in the 1890s, but the situation became serious when the wife of Norris' bondsman became worried that Norris had indeed lost the money, and that the malfeasance would bring financial ruin to her husband.
		George W. Norris was saved from ruin and in a comparatively short time was able to make good his financial responsibility and in after years he was honored with election to the United States Senate."
	www.mccookgazette.com /story/1149889.html (665 words)

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