Hiram Willey
{{short description|American judge and attorney (1818-1910)}}
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| name = Hiram Willey
| birth_date = {{birth date|1818|5|23}}
| birth_place = East Haddam, Connecticut
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| death_place = Hadlyme, Connecticut
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1910|3|8|1818|5|23}}
| office = Connecticut General Assembly
| term_start = 1847
| term_end = ?
| term_start1 = 1857
| term_end1 = ?
| term_start2 = 1877
| term_end2 = ?
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| term_end3 = 1860
| term_start3 = 1859
| office3 = Connecticut Senate
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| term_end4 = 1861
| term_start4 = 1860
| office4 = Connecticut Probate Courts Judge
| successor5 = Fredrick L. Allen
| predecessor5 = Jonathan N. Harris
| term_end5 = 1865
| term_start5 = 1862
| office5 = Mayor of New London, Connecticut
| successor6 = Calvin G. Child
| predecessor6 = Tilton E. Doolittle
| term_end6 = 1869
| term_start6 = 1861
| president6 = Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
| office6 = United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut
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| term_end7 = 1873
| term_start7 = 1870
| office7 = Connecticut Judge of Common Pleas
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| image = Hiram Willey.jpg
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| children = 2
| alma_mater = Wesleyan University (1839)
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Hiram Willey (May 5, 1818 – March 8, 1910) was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut under two presidents.{{Cite web|date=2015-03-18|title=About the Office|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/office|access-date=2020-11-11|website=www.justice.gov|language=en}} He was also a judge, member of the Connecticut senate, author, and the mayor of New London, Connecticut.
Biography
Hiram was born on May 5, 1818, to Eathan Allen Willey and Mary Brockway in East Haddam, Connecticut. His ancestors moved to Connecticut in 1645 and his grandfather Abraham Willey was a captain in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the first graduates of Wesleyan University of Middletown graduating in 1839. After passing the bar in 1841,{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=}} he would be involved in numerous political and legal positions throughout Connecticut. He became State's Attorney; was a member of the Legislature and State Senate; Mayor of New London; Judge of Probate Court and of the Court of Common Pleas;{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=J. T.|title=Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi|publisher=Beta Theta Pi|year=1917|isbn=|location=|pages=}} returned to Hadlyme to reside in 1875; was lay reader in the P.E. Church of Hadlyme, member of F.& A.M.; First Grand Commander of the Encampment in New London.{{Cite book|last=Warner|first=Lucien C.|title=From the Descendants of Andrew Warner|publisher=|year=1919|isbn=|location=|pages=195}} {{PD-notice}}
As the mayor of New London, he established the cities police force.{{Cite web|title=Welcome to New London, Connecticut - History|url=http://newlondonct.org/content/8251/7455/7833.aspx|access-date=2020-11-20|website=newlondonct.org}} In addition he wrote multiple books and was a professor at Yale.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1859|title=Yale University Catalogue 1859|url=https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=yale_catalogue|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}
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