James S. Norris

{{Short description|American politician (1810–1874)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name=James S. Norris

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|order=6th

|office=Speaker of the Minnesota Territory House of Representatives

|term_start= 1855

|term_end= 1856

|predecessor=Nathan C. D. Taylor

|successor=Charles Gardner

|birth_date={{birth date text|1810}}

|birth_place=Monmouth, Maine, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1874|3|5|1810}}

|death_place=Cottage Grove, Minnesota, U.S.

|alma_mater=

|party=Democratic

|spouse=

|children=

|residence=Cottage Grove, Minnesota

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James S. Norris (1810 – March 5, 1874) was a Democratic politician from Minnesota Territory. Born in Monmouth, Maine, Norris moved to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin in 1839. He later moved to Minnesota, settling on a farm in Cottage Grove, Minnesota in 1842. He was elected to the first Minnesota Territorial Legislature in 1849 and re-elected in 1854. In 1855, he served as the Speaker of the Minnesota Territory House of Representatives. He attended the state's Democratic Constitutional Convention in 1857. In 1870 he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. He died in Cottage Grove in 1874.{{cite book|last1=Folsom|first1=William Henry Carman|title=Fifty Years in the Northwest|date=1888|publisher=Pioneer Press Company|page=363|url=https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsinnort00folsuoft#page/363/mode/1up/}}{{cite web|title=Norris, James S. — Legislator Record|url=http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.aspx?id=14200|website=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library}}