Background

Norris, Moses was born on November 8, 1799 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, United States.

Education

Born in Pittsfield, he attended the public schools and the Pittsfield Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1828. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Barnstead.

Career

Norris was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847). He was then elected to the United States. Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death. He died in Washington, District of Columbia in 1855.

Interment was in Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield.

Achievements

• Moses Norris has been listed as a noteworthy senator, congressman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

He returned to Pittsfield in 1834, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1837 to 1840 and in 1842, and was a member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire in 1841-1842. He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1847-1848, and served as speaker. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Claims (Thirty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirty-second Congress) and the Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-third Congress).