 Charles Phelps Norton

Charles Phelps Norton (March 15, 1858 – 1920) was chancellor of the University of Buffalo from 1909–20; and a founder of the University of Buffalo Law School, now known as the State University of New York at Buffalo

Norton was born in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1858 and was the son of Charles Davis Norton and Jeannette Phelps; whose grandmother Betsy Law (Sherman) Phelps was the granddaughter of American founding father Roger Sherman.He went to Harvard University, where he was a classmate and friend of former President Theodore Roosevelt, in the class of 1880.