William Willett, Jr.

William Forte Willett Jr. ( born November 27, 1869 in Brooklyn, New York, † February 12, 1938 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Forte Willett Jr. was born about three years after the end of the civil war in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and graduated in 1895 at the Faculty of Law at New York University in New York City. His admission to the bar, he received the following year and then began practicing in New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1906 for the 60th Congress Willett was in the 14th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Arnette Towne on March 4, 1907. After a successful re-election he resigned in 1910 to run again, he retired after March 3, 1911 the Congress of.

After his conference time he went to real estate transactions. He bribed in October 1911, Democratic leader of Queens County, Curley Joe Cassidy, with $ 10,000 for the nomination for the New York Supreme Court in 1912 they complained of bribery. They were sentenced to a prison term of 14 months in Sing Sing in 1913. Then they put together a number of unsuccessful appeals, but eventually joined in January 1915 to their imprisonment. Ironically, Willett was elected in Prison inmates to judge the Mutual Welfare League, an organization that was responsible for the enforcement of discipline among inmates. After a series of unpopular decisions him several teeth were knocked out. As a result, he spent the rest of his sentence in another jail. On February 12, 1938, he died in New York City and was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn.