George B. Willis

{{Short description|American legislator}}

George B. Willis was a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Craven County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1870.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4iGAAAAMAAJ&q=george+b.+willis.craven.county | isbn=978-0-19-507406-2 | title=Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction | year=1993 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}

Richard Tucker and Edward R. Dudley were fellow African American state legislators from New Bern.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2YGEAAAQBAJ&dq=george+b.+willis.craven.county&pg=PT153 | isbn=9781478012832 | title=Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South | year= 2020 | publisher=Duke University Press }} Craven County was represented by several African Americans during the period.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vc_zglApUMoC&dq=george+b.+willis.craven.county&pg=PA69 | isbn=9780807144770 | title=George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life | year=2012 | publisher=LSU Press }}

He commanded Company H of the 1st North Carolina State Troops.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44113199|title=The Making of a Black Militia Company: New Bern Troops in the Kirk-Holden War, 1870|author=McGuire, Samuel B.|year=2014|journal=The North Carolina Historical Review|volume=91|issue=3|pages=288–322|jstor=44113199 }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRfjAQAAQBAJ&dq=george+b.+willis.craven.county&pg=PA217 | isbn=9781469608761 | title=Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770–1900 | year= 2013 | publisher=UNC Press Books }}