William Willett Jr. exhausting his appeals he served 14 months in Sing Sing. Willett then went into the real estate business. He died in New York City on February 12, 1938 and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. William Willett Jr. William Forte Willett Jr. (November 27, 1869 – February 12, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from New York. William Willett was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 27, 1869. He attended the public schools of his native city and then graduated from the law department of New York University, New York City, in 1895. He was admitted to the
Vincent Thomas (mayor) not to seek re-election, Thomas called for an increase in African-American representation in the city government. Vincent Thomas died at the Harbor's Edge retirement community in Norfolk on November 7, 2015, at the age of 93. Vincent Thomas (mayor) Vincent Johns Thomas (September 20, 1922 – November 7, 2015) was an American businessman and politician who served as the Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, from 1976 to 1984. He also served as the chairman of the Virginia State Board of Education from 1975 to 1978. Thomas, who was born in Norfolk to Minnie Allison Thomas and Vincent Graves Thomas on September