Elijah Hise Norton (November 21, 1821 – August 6, 1914) was a U.S. congressman from Missouri during the United States Civil War.

Prior to the United States Civil War, Elijah served as an outspoken voice against Missouri's secession from the Union.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863), where, despite his opposition to his state's secession, he opposed waging war against the Confederacy to preserve the Union, believing that "it would be better for all concerned to let the seceding states depart in peace" [1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

[2] Elijah was subsequently appointed and then elected as judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri, serving from 1877 to 1888.

He then resumed the private practice of law and the care of his estate and died in Platte City, August 6, 1914.