John H. Willis | |
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Member of the Arizona Senate from the Navajo County district | |
In office March 1912 –January 1915 | |
Preceded by | First Senator from Navajo County |
Succeeded by | D. D. Crabb |
Personal details | |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Profession | Politician |
John H. Willis was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. [1]
Willis lived in Snowflake,Arizona,and in 1892 was nominated by the Republicans for probate judge of Apache County,which contained Snowflake at that time. [2] He was a cattle rancher. [3] Willis married Carrie Haynes on November 26,1891. [4]
In 1894,Willis was elected to the Apache County Board of Supervisors. [5] After Navajo County was split from Apache County in 1895,Willis was appointed to serve on the Board of Supervisors of the newly created county. [6] In 1896,when the first election was held,Willis was nominated by the Republicans to serve on the board of supervisors of the new county. [7] The following year,he was selected to serve as the president of that body. [8] In November 1897,Willis resigned from the board of supervisors in order to go on his two-year LDS mission to the Southern States. [9] [10]
Upon return from his mission in 1900,the Republicans nominated Willis once again for the board of supervisors. [11] In the November general election he came in second,slightly in front of Democrat John Hunt,259–254,giving him one of the two supervisor positions. [12] He was again nominated by the Republicans in 1902 for the board of supervisors, [13] however in the general election he came in third,behind Democrat R. C. Creswell,and his fellow Republican F. F. Flickinger. Creswell received 326 votes,Flickinger 305,and Willis 287. [14] In 1908 he won the Republican nomination to run for the territorial house of representatives,but lost in the general election to Democrat Joseph Peterson,445–238. [15] [16]
1911 saw Willis nominated for the house of representatives by the Republicans,but this was for the state,not territorial house. [17] Unlike the 1908 election,Willis defeated his Democratic opponent,William Morgan,398–327. [18] Willis did not run for re-election in 1914. [19]
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