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  Willis, Frank B.
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NameFrank B. Willis
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Born December 28, 1871
DiedMarch 30, 1928 (56 years)
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InfoFrank Bartlett Willis

Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Lewis Center, Delaware County, Ohio, December 28, 1871; attended the common schools; graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1894; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1906; professor of history and economics at Ohio Northern University 1894-1906; professor of economics and law 1906-1910; member, State house of representatives 1900-1904; was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, to January 9, 1915, when he resigned, having been elected Governor; Governor of Ohio 1915-1917; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 for the term commencing March 4, 1921, and subsequently appointed in January 1921 to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1921, caused by the resignation of Warren G. Harding; reelected in 1926 and served from January 14, 1921, until his death; chairman, Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions (Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses); died in Delaware, Ohio, March 30, 1928; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.


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  06/01/1928 US President - R Primaries Lost 1.99% (-47.47%)
  04/24/1928 OH US President - R Primary Lost 26.47% (-41.67%)
  11/02/1926 OH US Senate Won 53.19% (+6.59%)
  11/02/1920 OH US Senate Won 59.10% (+18.35%)
  08/10/1920 OH US Senate - R Primary Won 49.60% (+20.00%)
  11/05/1918 OH Governor Lost 49.38% (-1.24%)
  11/07/1916 OH Governor Lost 47.83% (-0.56%)
  06/10/1916 US President - R Convention Lost 0.23% (-54.78%)
  11/03/1914 OH Governor Won 46.32% (+2.59%)
  11/05/1912 OH - District 08 Won 43.84% (+3.20%)
  11/08/1910 OH - District 08 Won 50.02% (+3.59%)
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