Fred C. Norton Papers (1965-1987) at the Minnesota Historical SocietyLegislative files, political campaign files, and speeches documenting Fred Norton's service as a DFL representative in the Minnesota legislature from St. Paul districts 46A (1967-1972) and 65A (1973-1987), as speaker of the House (1980 and 1987), and as minority leader (1985-1986).
Norton was a member of the House's standing committees on Appropriations, Governmental Operations, Financial Institutions and Insurance, Judiciary, and Rules and Legislative Administration. His legislative files include information on the controversial construction of the Interstate 35E connection to Interstate 94, the federal designation of the St. Croix River as a wild and scenic river, the preservation and contemporary use of officer's row at Fort Snelling, the Minnesota Emergency Employment Development program, plans for renovation of the hospital facilities at the University of Minnesota, and the farm crisis of the mid-1980s. Additional files address such issues as child care, family law, interstate banking, credit unions, taxation, minimum wages, unemployment compensation, worker's compensation, economic development along the University Avenue corridor, and financing for the Mall of America. Included within the files are correspondence, memoranda, bill drafts, bill summaries, fiscal impact studies, amendments, committee reports hearing testimony, press releases, and news clippings.
Campaign files (1968-1986), as well as legislative files documenting Norton's tenure as House minority leader (1985-1986), provide a great deal of information regarding state partisan politics and the role of the House DFL Caucus.
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