Albert S. Willis

Albert S. Willis

Albert Shelby Willis (born January 22, 1843 in Shelbyville , Shelby County , Kentucky , †  January 6, 1897 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1887 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Willis attended his homeland public schools including Louisville Male High School , which he graduated from in 1860. For the next four years he taught himself as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree at Louisville Law School and his admission to the bar in 1866, he began to practice in Louisville in this profession. Between 1874 and 1877 he was a prosecutor in Jefferson County .

Politically, Willis was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1876 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Henry Watterson on March 4, 1877 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1887 . From 1883 to 1887 he was chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors .

In the elections of 1886 he was defeated by his party colleague Asher G. Caruth . After leaving the House of Representatives, Willis initially practiced as a lawyer again. In 1893 he was sent to Hawaii by President Grover Cleveland as the American envoy . There he was supposed to represent American interests as the successor to James Henderson Blount during the domestic political unrest in the still independent Kingdom of Hawaii. Albert Willis held his office until his death on January 6, 1897. He was then buried in Louisville.

Web links

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• Albert S. Willis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert S. Willis in the database of Find a Grave (English)