RARE \"New Hampshire Senator\" Moses Norris Jr Clipped Signature For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "New Hampshire Senator" Moses Norris Jr Clipped Signature. 

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Moses Norris Jr. (November 8,

1799 – January 11, 1855) was a United Hampshire. 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. 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. Norris was elected as a Democrat to

the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847).

He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1847-1848, and

served as speaker. He was then

elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death.

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). He died in Washington, D.C. in 1855; interment was in Floral Park

Cemetery, Pittsfield.