George W. Norris

(1861-1944) lived in Beaver City, Furnas County, and McCook. Lawyer and politician, was U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator from Nebraska for 40 years, father of Tennessee Valley Authority that made electricity available in rural America, pushed through approval of 20th Amendment to the Constitution which ended "lame duck" sessions of Congress, ranked as the greatest senator in American history in 1957 in a nationwide poll of professional historians and political scientists, appeared on cover of Time, January 11, 1937. Consult American National Biography, Vol 16 (1999) 499-501.

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