George W. Norris

The only state with a unicameral legislature is Nebraska, which abolished its House of Representatives in a 1934 referendum at the urging of Senator George W. Norris, a progressive Republican.

Henry J. Stern: Seven Questions You Asked 2010

George W. Norris: The Persistence of a Progressive, 1913–1933.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

George W. Norris: The Persistence of a Progressive, 1913–1933.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

George W. Norris and Bronson Cutting, among other Republicans, readily voted for the president's initiatives.

Stanley Kutler: Enough With This '100 Days' Nonsense! 2009

Senator George W. Norris, from Nebraska, said that Japanese cities were open to the kind of attack that would “burn them off the face of the earth.”

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

But a handful of determined United States Senators who opposed U.S. intervention in World War I, including Republican George W. Norris of Nebraska, launched a filibuster with far-reaching consequences.

Senator Robert Byrd Quoting Aaron Burr in the well of the Senate! Michael Caddell 2005

Senator George W. Norris, this Nebraskan from the heart of America, suffered merciless abuse, vicious invective, and public scorn, tarred by public sentiment, savaged by a strident press in the grip of a public filled with hate of Germany at the start of World War I.

Senator Robert Byrd Quoting Aaron Burr in the well of the Senate! Michael Caddell 2005

Senator George W. Norris, this Nebraskan from the heart of America, suffered merciless abuse, vicious invective, and public scorn, tarred by public sentiment, savaged by a strident press in the grip of a public filled with hate of Germany at the start of World War I.

Archive 2005-03-01 Michael Caddell 2005

But a handful of determined United States Senators who opposed U.S. intervention in World War I, including Republican George W. Norris of Nebraska, launched a filibuster with far-reaching consequences.

Archive 2005-03-01 Michael Caddell 2005

For my generation, coming of age politically in the 1930s, Senator George W. Norris was unquestionably the hero in the Senate, doubtless with reason.

A Progressive Hero Hofstadter, Richard 1964