Amasa Norcross (January 26, 1824 – April 2, 1898) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Massachusetts
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.
Born in
Rindge, New Hampshire
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, Norcross attended the common schools and
Appleton Academy,
New Ipswich, New Hampshire
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. He studied law, was
admitted to the bar
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in 1847 and commenced practice in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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. He served as member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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in 1858, 1859, and again in 1862. He was assessor of internal revenue from August 1862 until May 1873, when the office was abolished. He served as mayor of the city of
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
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, in 1873 and 1874. He served in the
Massachusetts Senate
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in 1874.
Norcross was elected as a
Republican
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to the
Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, and
Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882. He resumed the practice of law. He died in
Paris
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,
France
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, April 2, 1898, while on a visit to his daughter, painter
Eleanor Norcross. He was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
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.
See also
*
1874 Massachusetts legislature
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*
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 6th Worcester district
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References
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1824 births
1898 deaths
People from Rindge, New Hampshire
Politicians from Worcester, Massachusetts
Mayors of places in Massachusetts
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Republican Party Massachusetts state senators
Massachusetts lawyers
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Politicians from Fitchburg, Massachusetts
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers