Raymond E. Willis

Raymond Eugene Willis ( born August 11, 1875 in Waterloo, DeKalb County, Indiana, † March 21, 1956 in Angola, Indiana ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. Senate.

Raymond Willis first attended the public schools and in 1896 made ​​his degree from Wabash College in Crawfordsville. He then completed an apprenticeship as a printer in Waterloo, before moving in 1898 to Angola in Steuben County and operated there in the newspaper industry. From 1910 to 1914 he was the postmaster of the city; during the First World War, he was 1917-1918 before the Defense of Steuben County.

1919 pulled a Willis as a deputy to the House of Representatives from Indiana, where he remained until 1921. His next candidate for political office was only in 1938, but yet he still missed election to the U.S. Senate. Two years later, he applied for the second Senate seat Indiana, defeating the Democratic incumbent Sherman Minton. After six years, he did not stand for re- election, so he resigned from the Congress on 3 January 1947. Willis was then before the Steuben Printing Company as President and a member of the Board of Trustees of Tri - State College in Angola.