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Norton, Joshua Abraham

British American miner and rice baron

Also known as: Emperor Norton

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Sarria

In José Sarria
…appropriated the legend of the Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton, an eccentric 19th-century San Franciscan miner and rice baron who in 1858 had proclaimed himself the Emperor of the United States and Canada and Protector of Mexico.
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