Miner Gibbs Norton (May 11, 1857 – September 7, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1921 to 1923

Biography

Born in

Andover, Ohio Andover is a village located in the south-east of Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,145 at the 2010 census. The closest village to the Ohio side of Pymatuning State Park, the settlement supports a regional tourism indu ...

, Norton attended the public schools, the

National Normal University National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon, Ohio. Located in southwestern Ohio, it opened in 1855 as Southwestern Normal School and took the name National Normal University in 1870. Alfred Holbrook was the first president a ...

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, and

Baldwin-Wallace College Baldwin Wallace University (BW) is a private university in Berea, Ohio. It was founded in 1845 as Baldwin Institute by Methodist businessman John Baldwin. The school merged with nearby German Wallace College in 1913 to become Baldwin-Wallace Co ...

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. He graduated from

Mount Union College The University of Mount Union is a private university in Alliance, Ohio. Founded in 1846, the university was affiliated with the Methodist Church until the spring of 2019. In the fall of 2020, Mount Union had an enrollment of 1,958 undergraduate ...

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, in 1878 and from the law department of

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in 1880. He was

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in the latter year and commenced practice in

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. He served as director of law of

1895-1899. He served as chairman of the Republican State executive committee in the early nineties. United States appraiser for the northern district of Ohio 1905-1909.

Congress

Norton was elected as a

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to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law in Cleveland. He was appointed by President Coolidge collector of customs at Cleveland on February 7, 1925, and served until his death in

, September 7, 1926. He was interred in Oakdale Cemetery,

Jefferson, Ohio Jefferson is a village in and the county seat of Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,226 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ashtabula micropolitan area, northeast of Cleveland. Modern-day Jefferson sports the worl ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Norton, Miner Gibbs 1857 births 1926 deaths National Normal University alumni Baldwin Wallace University alumni University of Mount Union alumni Ohio lawyers Yale Law School alumni People from Ashtabula County, Ohio 19th-century American lawyers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio