Daniel Sheldon Norton
Daniel Sheldon Norton was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Minnesota State Senate and as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
Norton was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio to Daniel Sheldon and Sarah Sheldon . He attended Kenyon College but left school to serve with the 2nd Ohio Volunteers in the MexicanAmerican War. After returning from the war he studied law under his brotherinlaw Judge Rollin C. Hurd. For several years he moved to California and Nicaragua but he returned to Ohio in 1852 and was admitted to the bar shortly thereafter. He practiced law in Mount Vernon for several years before he moving to Minnesota Territory in 1855.
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