Norris was born in 1861 in York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio and was the eleventh child of poor, uneducated, farmers of Scots-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
However, during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, 51% of the voters from Sandusky County supported Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Auditor of Sandusky County, Ohio from 1856 to 1860.
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In 2002, he was elected judge of the Sandusky County, Ohio Common Pleas Court.