George W. Norris

A Nebraska Republican progressive who later sat as an independent, Norris wrote the Twentieth Amendment, ratified in 1933, which ended long 'lame duck' sessions by moving inaugurations and the start of Congress to January. He fought for a decade to keep the Muscle Shoals dams in public hands, which became the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933, and co-sponsored the Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932 limiting injunctions against strikes. He worked across party lines to get all three.