Nationality American Citizenship United States Role Lawyer | Ethnicity Caucasian Name William Willis | |
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Born August 31, 1794 ( 1794-08-31 ) Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States Occupation Lawyer
Historian
Politician Known for Mayor of Portland, Maine (1857) Died 1870, Portland, Maine, United States Books The History of Portland: A Facsimile of the 1865 Ed | ||
William Willis (1794–1870) was a Portland, Maine lawyer, historian, and politician, and was the partner of William Pitt Fessenden. He was state senator in 1855 and Mayor of Portland, Maine in 1857, president of the Maine Historical Society (1856–1865), and president of the Maine Central Railroad. In 1864 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Bowdoin College, which granted him an honorary degree in 1867, has a small collection of his correspondence, drafts of his writing, and estate information.
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