Friday, October 30, 2026

Question: Norris Dam is named for a U.S. senator from which state?

Answer: Nebraska. Sen. George Norris, a progressive Republican, spent 11 years pushing for public power in the Tennessee Valley before Congress finally created the TVA in 1933. The dam that bears his name was the agency’s first hydroelectric project, built on the Clinch River in Anderson County and finished in 1936.