
Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Rise and Fall of the Emperor Norton
Emperor Norton was the first Emperor of the United States. He ordered that a bridge and tunnel be built across San Francisco Bay. His grave site is a place of pilgrimage for his Majesty's loyal subjects today. There are efforts to name part or all of the San Francisco Oakland Bridge in honor of him. The plan is to have the existing names left, but to add Emperor Norton Bridge as an additional honorary name.
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Joshua Abraham Norton had an amazing life and was a titan among men. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the story of Norton's life in the 1800s, with his rise from humble circumstances to wealth and power to humility and back again, and learn what made him so amazing.
