Willis J. Hulings | |
Image Name: | File:HULLINGS, WILLIS J. LCCN2016858467 (2) (cropped).jpg |
State1: | Pennsylvania |
District1: | 28th |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1919 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1921 |
Preceded1: | Earl Hanley Beshlin |
Succeeded1: | Harris Jacob Bixler |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1913 |
Term End2: | March 3, 1915 |
Preceded2: | Peter Moore Speer |
Succeeded2: | Samuel Henry Miller |
Office3: | Member of the Pennsylvania Senate |
Term3: | 1906-1910 |
Office4: | Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
Term4: | 1881-1887 |
Birth Date: | 1 July 1850 |
Birth Place: | Rimersburg, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | Oil City, Pennsylvania |
Party: | Progressive Republican |
Willis James Hulings (July 1, 1850 – August 8, 1924) was a Progressive and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Willis J. Hulings was born in Rimersburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the Kittanning Academy. He studied law and was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Arizona. He became a civil engineer and was engaged in mining and the petroleum business.
Hulings was elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives and served from 1881 to 1887. He was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard from 1876 to 1912, serving in the various grades from private to brigadier general. He served as a general in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1906 to 1910. He was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920. He died in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Interment in Grove Hill Cemetery.