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NORRIS, George William, (1861-1944) a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, on July 11, 1861; attended the district schools, Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso; taught school while studying law; graduated from the law department of Valparaiso (Ind.) University in 1883 and was admitted to the bar the same year; continued teaching until he moved to Beaver City, Furnas County, Nebr., in 1885; engaged in the practice of law; county attorney of Furnas County for three terms; district judge of the fourteenth district 1895-1902; moved to McCook, Red Willow County, Nebr., in 1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); did not seek renomination in 1912, having become a candidate for Senator; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Judge Robert W. Archbald; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1912; reelected in 1918, 1924, and 1930, and as an Independent in 1936, and served from March 4, 1913, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; chairman, Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Patents (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses); known as the “father of the TVA,” the first of that project’s dams was named Norris Dam; retired from public life; died in McCook, Nebr., September 2, 1944; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery. source: bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000139 here is link to info on the Archbald impeachment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Archbald

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Standing portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Harry Angstrom: Thanks! We'll add the full name & date to the source data and reload the description

This is 1931-built 195-foot yacht VELERO III. (her spelling was variously recorded by different people). I believe she was taken into Naval service in 1941 as the patrol yacht CHALCEDONY (Navy documents record her name as the "ex-VELERO III"). www.alternatewars.com/Archives/Ships_Data_USN/NS-250-011_(138-145)_PY.pdf A search on Google images under her name "VELERO III" yields many good photographs.