COMMISSIONER ALBERT WILLIS LYING IN STATE IN THRONE

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THIS is an amazing 7 BY 9 ALBUMEN photo of the lying in state of one of the commissioners of hawaii, albert willisthere is a line drawing of this exact scene in the Janaury 12, 1897 Hawaiin Gazette i have a pdf file of this elaborate story e mail me for a copy. Born in Shelbyville, Kentucky , Willis attended the common schools , and graduated from the Louisville Male High School in 1860. He taught school for four years before graduating from the Louisville Law School in 1866. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Louisville. He served as prosecuting attorney for Jefferson County from 1874 to 1877.Willis was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887). He served as chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors during the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886.He resumed the practice of law before being appointed Minister to Hawaii by President Grover Cleveland in 1893. Willis was sent to Hawaii on a secret mission to meet with deposed Queen Lili ʻ uokalani and obtain a promise of amnesty for those involved in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii if Cleveland restored her to the throne. Originally unsuccessful in securing such a promise in November 1893, when the queen changed her read more
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