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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

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Lola Norris was the star witness in the 1913 trial of Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, in San Francisco. Diggs and Caminetti, both married men, were accused of violating the Mann Act by transporting their mistresses, Norris and Marsha Warrington, to Reno for immoral purposes. (They were convicted, fined, and sentenced to the federal prison in McNeill Island, WA.) www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/knockout/mann.html

Marsha Warrington, the other woman involved in this scandal:

"a fine pair of fetlocks" - posted here 2008

Foxglove I remember that one, it has to be more recent than 2008?

The ladies must be sisters?

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