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Calvin Willey
Calvin Willey (September 15, 1776August 23, 1858) was an American politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate.
Early life.
Willey was born at East Haddam, Connecticut. He went to the common schools. Then he started to study law at Hebron, Connecticut, in 1795 and was admitted to the bar in February 1798. He commenced practice at Chatham and moved to Stafford in 1800. He was appointed the first postmaster at Stafford Springs, a position he held 1806–1808.
, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Sep., 1886), pp. 493-494. Also published by New York: Negro University Press, 1969.
The 1852 Democratic National Convention:
Austin Willey of Maine asserted that the compromise proposal was ambiguous enough to allow anyone to interpret it as he wished, but he believed this was no recommendation and urged its rejection. Source: William Goodell’s Dictionary of American Biography (N. Y., 1928) Source: cip.cornell.edu/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/psu.ph/1133212435/body/pdf
About the antislavery