Daniel S. Norton

Daniel S. Norton (April 12, 1829 July 13, 1870)was an American politician. Norton was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio and served in the Mexican War. He moved to Minnesota in 1855. He served in both the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota State Senate. He was elected to the US Senate during the Civil War from Minnesota as an Unionist and than as a Republican from March 4, 1865 until his death July 13, 1870.