Robert Norton (Virginia politician)

Robert Norton (born about 1840) was a former slave who became a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 until 1874 and 1876 until 1883.

They were reportedly the children of a slave and her owner and escaped to Troy, New York.

Norton and his brother Daniel returned to Yorktown, Virginia after the American Civil War.

[2] Running as an independent in 1874 for a seat in the U.S. Congress, he criticized his White Republican incumbent opponent, James H. Platt Jr., as a carpetbagger and urged voters to elect a "colored" man.

Norton appeared on the Readjuster Party ticket in November 1881.