George William Norris was an American politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, from 1903 until 1913, and five terms in the United States Senate, from 1913 until 1943. He served four terms as a Republican and his final term as an independent. Norris was defeated for re-election in 1942.
Norris, c. 1930s
George W. Norris, US Representative from Nebraska.
FDR (center) signs the Rural Electrification Act with Congressman John E. Rankin (left) and Norris (right)
A bust of Norris was created in 1942 by Jo Davidson for the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates similarly to a private for-profit company. It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth-largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country.
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Image: TVA offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee (4403311112)
The twin cooling towers and reactor containment buildings of TVA's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant north of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the TVA Act