VERY RARE "NY Congressman" Benjamin A. Willis Clipped Signature For Sale
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VERY RARE "NY Congressman" Benjamin A. Willis Clipped Signature:
$139.99
Up for sale a VERY
RARE! "NY Congressman" Benjamin A. Willis Cut Signature.
ES-5072
Benjamin Albertson Willis (March 24, 1840 – October 14, 1886)
was a U.S.
Representative from New York. Born in Roslyn, New York, the eldest son of Charles
Willis and Abigail Albertson, Willis was graduated from Union College in 1861. He studied law, was admitted
to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in New York City. During the Civil War, he
enlisted in the Union Army in 1862. He
served as captain
in the One Hundred and Nineteenth New York Volunteers, and subsequently colonel of
the 12th New
York Volunteer Infantry. He was honorably discharged
in 1864. He resumed the practice of law, and was a member of the New York State
Assembly 1872-1878. Willis was elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth
Congresses (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy
(Forty-fifth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878
to the Forty-sixth
Congress. He engaged in the practice of law and also in the real estate business. He married Lillie Evelyn
Macauley, daughter of William Macauley and Mary S. Underhill, and had three
children: Kate T. Willis, Portia Willis and Benjamin A. Willis Jr. He died in
New York City on October 14, 1886. He was interred in Friends Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island. He was reinterred in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
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