"Opposition to Wilson's War Message"
Speech
By: George W. Norris
Date: April 4, 1917
Source: Norris, George W. "Opposition to Wilson's War Message." Congressional Record. 65th Cong., 1st sess., 1917. Vol. 55, pt. 1. Available online at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/doc19.htm; website home page: http://www.mtholyoke.edu (accessed May 19, 2003).
About the Author: George W. Norris (1861–1942) was born on an Ohio farm. After earning a law degree from Valparaiso University in Indiana, he moved to Beaver City, Nebraska, to begin his law practice in 1885. In 1902, he was elected to Congress as a Republican; then in 1912, he was elected to the Senate. He sponsored the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution and legislation to create the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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