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Norton, Daniel Sheldon

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born April 12, 1829, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected to the Minnesota state senate, declining reelection in 1859; and was again re-elected in 1860, and also in 1863 and 1864, having been a member of the state house of representatives in 1862. In 1865 he took his seat as a senator in congress from Minnesota for the term ending in 1871. He died July 14, 1870, in Washington, D. C.