Benjamin White Norris (22 January 1819-26 January 1873) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AL 3) from 21 July 1868 to 3 March 1869, succeeding David Clopton and preceding Robert Stell Heflin.
Biography[]
Benjamin White Norris was born in Monmouth, Maine in 1819, and he became a grocer in Skowhegan before serving as a delegate to the 1848 Free Soil Convention and becoming a lawyer in Somerset County in 1852. He served as a land agent from 1860 to 1863, as a Union Army paymaster during the American Civil War, as a Freedman's Bureau employee in Alabama during Reconstruction, and a planter in Wetumpka, Elmore County. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1868 to 1869, and he chaired the Alabama Republican Party from 1868 to 1870. He died in Montgomery in 1873.