Raymond E. Willis: Difference between revisions

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| office1 = [[United States Senator]]<br/>from [[Indiana]]

| term_start1 = January 3, 1941

| term_end1 = January 3, 1947

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| predecessor1 = [[Sherman Minton]]

| successor1 = [[William E. Jenner]]

| office2 state_house2 =Member of the [[Indiana House of Representatives]]

'''Raymond Eugene Willis''' (August 11, 1875{{spaced ndash}}March 21, 1956) was a [[United States senator]] from [[Indiana]]. Born in [[Waterloo, Indiana]], he attended the public schools and graduated from [[Wabash College]] in 1896. He learned the printer's trade in Waterloo and moved to [[Angola, Indiana]], and engaged in the newspaper publishing business in 1898. He was [[postmaster]] of Angola from 1910 to 1914 and during the [[First World War]] he served as chairman of [[Steuben County, Indiana|Steuben County Council of Defense]], 1917-1918.

From 19191918 to 19211922, Willis was a member of the [[Indiana House of Representatives]].<ref>https://www.capitolandwashington.com/politicians/pol/184/</ref> andHe was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate in 1938, losing to moderate incumbent Democrat [[Frederick Van Nuys]] by about 5,100 votes; he was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Senate in 1940, narrowly unseating Democratic [[Sherman Minton]], and served from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1947. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 and resumed the publishing business as president of the Steuben Printing Co., and was also trustee of [[Tri-State University]] at Angola. He died in Angola in 1956; interment was in Circle Hill Cemetery.

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