Moses Norris, Jr.

Moses Norris, Jr.
United States Senator
from New Hampshire
In office
March 4, 1849 January 11, 1855
Preceded by Charles G. Atherton
Succeeded by John S. Wells
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's At-large district
In office
March 4, 1843  March 3, 1847
Preceded by Charles G. Atherton
Succeeded by District eliminated
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
In office
1837-1840
1842
1847-1848
Personal details
Born (1799-11-08)November 8, 1799
Pittsfield, New Hampshire
Died January 11, 1855(1855-01-11) (aged 55)
Washington, D.C.
Political party Democratic
Profession Politician, Lawyer

Moses Norris, Jr. (November 8, 1799  January 11, 1855) was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire.

Born in Pittsfield, he attended the public schools and the Pittsfield Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1828. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Barnstead. He returned to Pittsfield in 1834, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1837 to 1840 and in 1842, and was a member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire in 1841-1842.

Norris was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847). He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1847-1848, and served as speaker. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Claims (Thirty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirty-second Congress) and the Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-third Congress). He died in Washington, D.C. in 1855; interment was in Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Charles G. Atherton
Edmund Burke
Ira A. Eastman
John R. Reding
Tristram Shaw
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Hampshire's at-large congressional district

March 4, 1843 March 3, 1847
Served alongside: Edmund Burke, John P. Hale, John R. Reding, James H. Johnson and Mace Moulton
Succeeded by
(none)
United States Senate
Preceded by
Charles G. Atherton
U.S. Senator (Class 3) from New Hampshire
March 4, 1849 January 11, 1855
Served alongside: John P. Hale, Charles G. Atherton and Jared W. Williams
Succeeded by
John S. Wells
Political offices
Preceded by
Harry Hibbard
Speaker of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives

1848
Succeeded by
Samuel H. Ayer
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