VERY RARE "NY Congressman" Benjamin A. Willis Cut Signature For Sale

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VERY RARE "NY Congressman" Benjamin A. Willis Cut Signature:
$139.99

Up for sale a VERY

RARE! "NY Congressman" Benjamin A. Willis Cut Signature.

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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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