Earle D. Willey

Earle Dukes Willey (July 21, 1889 – March 17, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware.

He attended the public schools and was graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1911.

Beginning as the principal of Greenwood High School from 1911 until 1915; Willey became secretary to U.S. Representative Thomas W. Miller in Washington, D.C., from 1915 until 1917 and state librarian from 1917 until 1921.

Willey was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1940, being defeated by Democrat Isaac J. MacCollum.

He served in the Republican minority in the 78th Congress, and lost his bid for a second term in 1944 to his predecessor, Philip A. Traynor.