Willis, Albert Shelby

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Albert Shelby Willis
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    Shelby Willis (father), Harriet Button Willis (mother), Florence Delaney (wife) 
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Louisville Law School, KY
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Educator
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Diplomat
    US House of Representatives
    Local government

    Albert Shelby Willis (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    WILLIS, Albert Shelby, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ky., January 22, 1843; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Louisville (Ky.) Male High School in 1860; taught school four years; was graduated from the Louisville Law School in 1866; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Louisville; prosecuting attorney for Jefferson County 1874-1877; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; appointed Minister to Hawaii by President Cleveland in 1893 and served until his death in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 6, 1897; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
    “Willis, Albert Shelby,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000557.
    How to Cite This Page: "Willis, Albert Shelby," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6879.