Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Anthony Banning Norton

Full Name: Anthony Banning Norton
Birth date: May 15, 1821
Death date: December 31, 1893

Terms of Service

House, 8th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
House, 7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
House, 6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857

(1) Norton "was elected a representative in the Texas legislature from Henderson and Kaufman counties in 1857 and 1859 as a Know-Nothing." Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) "In April 1860 two seemingly unrelated meetings of Unionists occurred . . . The newly created Constitutional Union party met in the Tyler courthouse to nominate delegates to that party's national convention. A.M. Gentry, . . . Anthony Bannon Norton, Benjamin Holland Epperson, and Lemuel D. Evans, completed a quartet made up of two Whigs, a Know-Nothing, and a Union Democrat. "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 444. Journal of Southern History .
(3) [In late 1860 and early 1861] legislators Micajah Lewis Armstrong, John L. Haynes, and Robert H. Taylor mailed circulars to their constituencies defending their unpopular Unionist positions. They joined other Unionist legislators and convention delegates on February 6 in issuing an address entreating Texans to reject secession." "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 447. Journal of Southern History .
(4) Norton is not included on list of "Texas Know Nothing Leaders with a Summary of Biographical Data Taken from the . . . United States Eighth Census, 1860." The Know Nothing Party was active at the state level in Texas in 1855 and 1856. "By 1857 the party had virtually disappeared in Texas." "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414-423, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

A.N. Norton. House Journal . 6th R.S.

Photographs

Photograph. Anthony Banning Norton, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Portrait and obituary, "Judge A.B. Norton," 1/2/1894, p. 7. Galveston Daily News .
NORTON, ANTHONY BANNING (1821-1893). Handbook of Texas Online .
". . . one of four delegates representing Texas at the National Constitutional Union Conventions commencing May 9 at Baltimore." Baggett, James Alex, "Origins of Early Texas Republican Party Leadership," The Journal of Southern History, Vol.40(3), August 1974, p. 444. Journal of Southern History .
Biographical sketch, "Knox County Authors." Knox County Historical Society 2009.
Anthony B. Norton, Austin publisher and former Whig, mentioned in "The Constitutional Union Party in Texas," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 3, January 1979, pp. 240-241, 247-248, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Anthony Banning Norton. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, A.B. Norton, pp. 228-230. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
Listed in "History of Legislative Representatives From This County [Henderson] Compiled," from Athens Weekly Review, 11/10/1938. Henderson County, TXGenWeb Project .