career was a leader both within the Readjuster Republicans, and African-American Republicans as a splinter group. During his tenure on the Committees on General Laws, on Federal Relations, and on Public Institutions, he sponsored four bills the Assembly passed, and he nominated two county judges whom the Assembly elected. Norton nominated Benjamin W. Lacy to the Supreme Court of Appeals, and presided over the Senate of Virginia on April 7, 1882. During this period Norton won legislation to authorize him, his brother Robert Norton and three others to operate a ferry between Yorktown and Gloucester Point. Following the white “redeeming” of Virginia in the 1883 elections, Daniel Norton was again reelected. He became a member of the first Board of Visitors for the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (later Virginia State University), and passed a bill providing for an annual eight-week summer session for African-American public school teachers there. Though Norton secured a position as an inspector in the Newport News Customs House as a political appointment, a break with U.S. Senator William Mahone led to the end of Norton's state senate career. In later years, Norton served as a justice of the peace in Yorktown until 1917. He continued to expand his real estate holdings. By 1894, he not only owned sixty-eight acres in York County, but fourteen and a half lots in Yorktown, including the old customs house. Death Daniel M. Norton died of interstitial nephritis in his wife’s hometown of Zanesville, Ohio on November 29, 1918. See also African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era References Bibliography Republican Party Virginia state senators 1840s births 1918 deaths Politicians from Williamsburg, Virginia Deaths from nephritis American freedmen Virginia State University people African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American state legislators in Virginia American justices of the peace