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Amasa Norcross

Amasa Norcross (26 January 1824-2 April 1898) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MA 10) from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1883, succeeding Julius Hawley Seelye and preceding William W. Rice.

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Amasa Norcross was born in Rindge, New Hampshire in 1824, and he became a lawyer in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1847. He served in the state house from 1858 to 1859 and in 1862, as an internal revenue commissioner from 1862 to 1873, as Mayor of Fitchburg from 1873 to 1874, as a state senator in 1874, and in the US House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883, and he died in Paris in 1898.

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