Background
Nortoni, Albert Dexter was born on January 26, 1867 in New Cambria, Missouri, United States. Son of Doctor Edward Warren and Hannah T. (Howell) Nortoni.
Nortoni, Albert Dexter was born on January 26, 1867 in New Cambria, Missouri, United States. Son of Doctor Edward Warren and Hannah T. (Howell) Nortoni.
Educated in common schools and by private instruction.
Practiced in Macon, Linn and Chariton counties, Missouri, and at Saint Louis. City attorney, New Cambria, 2 terms. Private secretary to Congressman C. North. Clark, 1 term.
Republican nominee for probate judge of Macon Company, 1894 (declined).
Defeated for Missouri Senate, 1896, and for circuit judge, 2d Circuit, 1898. Appointed, January 1, 1903, assistant United States district attorney, and moved to Saint Louis.
Judge Saint Louis Court of Appeals, 1905-1916. Resigned and resumed practice.
Vice-president and general counsel Continental Life Insurance Company, Continental Securities & Holding Company.
Director and counsel Grand National Bank, Saint Louis Building & Loan Association, Saint Louis Agency Сompany. Vice president and counsel Radio Amplifiers Company, Incorporated. Director Export Cooperage Company Curator University of Missouri, 1913-1919, and of Forest Park College, Saint Louis.
Member Missouri Code Commission, 1914-1915.
Served as member managing committee School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, Missouri, 1913-1919. Progressive candidate for government Missouri, 1912, and member Executive Committee Progressive National Committee.
Delegate at large Progressive National Convention, 1912 (platform committee) and chairman Missouri National delegation, 1916. Director Progressive Bureau Democratic National Committee, 1916.
Director Non-Partisan Association for League of Nations of World Court.
Member Missouri and Saint Louis bar associations, Society Colonial Wars, South.R. (president Saint Louis chapter, 1928. Clubs: Noonday, Sunset Hills Country, Glen Echo.
Married Maggie L. Francis, December 22, 1892 (died September 30, 1894). Married second, Emma T. Belcher, July 3, 1906.