Answer the following question: Facts:   - death place: addis ababa    - resting place: debre libanos    - monarch: haile selassie i    - death date: 16 november 1956    - office: president of the crown council of ethiopia    - spouse: tsige mariam beshah      - term end: 16 november 1956    - children: aberra kassa manayalush kassa tessemia kassa kassa asfawossen kassa wondosson kassa asrate kassa bizunesh    - term start: 13 july 1941    - birth date: 8 july 1881    - name: kassa hailu    - image: ras kassa.png    - birth place: selale , ethiopia    - religion: ethiopian orthodox   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of kassa haile darge .
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`` leul ras '' kassa hailu ks , gcvo , gbe , -lrb- amharic : ካሣ ኀይሉ ዳርጌ ; 7 august 1881 -- 16 november 1956 -rrb- was a shewan nobleman , the son of haile wolde kiros of lasta and tisseme darge , and grandson of ras darge sahle selassie the brother of menelik ii 's father .john spencer , who advised `` ras '' kassa during the writing of the 1955 constitution of ethiopia , described him as `` surely the most conservative of all the rases in constant attendance at the court . ''spencer continued his description of the aristocrat with noting that he rarely saw the `` ras '' `` in other than ethiopian national dress .large , bearded and silent , this imposing dignitary wore a black cloak with gold clasps worked into the form of lion heads .in working sessions , he used to take out with considerable pride a pair of folding half-lens spectacles with gold frames and bows . ''