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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaLEE, Arthur
(1740—1792)
LEE, Arthur, (brother of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Richard Henry Lee), a Delegate from Virginia; born at “Stratford,” in Westmoreland County, Va., December 20, 1740; attended Eton College, England; studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was graduated in 1765; returned to London in 1766 and studied law at Temple Bar 1766-1770; was admitted to the bar and practiced in London 1770-1776; commissioned as agent of Massachusetts in England and France in 1770; appointed correspondent of Congress in London in 1775; commissioner to France in 1776 and to Spain in 1777; returned to Virginia in 1780; member of the state house of delegates 1781-1783, 1785, and 1786; Member of the Continental Congress 1782-1784; member of the treasury board 1785-1789; died in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Va., on December 12, 1792; interment in Lansdowne Garden, in the rear of “Lansdowne,” his home, at Urbanna, Va.
Bibliography
Potts, Louis W. Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Greene, Jack P., comp. The Nature of Colony Constitutions; Two Pamphlets on the Wilkes Fund Controversy in South Carolina by Sir Egerton Leigh and Arthur Lee
. Edited and with an introduction by Jack P. Greene. [Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970].
Lee, Arthur. An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain, in the Present Disputes with America
. 1774. Reprint, London: Printed for J. Almon, 1776.
———. An Essay in Vindication of the Continental Colonies of America, From a Censure of Mr. Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments: With Some Reflections on Slavery in General
. London: Printed for the author: Sold by T. Beck and P. A. de Hondt, 1764.
———. Observations on Certain Commercial Transactions in France, Laid Before Congress
. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Bailey, 1780.
———. A Second Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People, on the Measures Respecting America
. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1775.
Lee, Richard Henry. Life of Arthur Lee, LL.D., Joint Commissioner of the United States to the Court of France, and Sole Commissioner to the Courts of Spain and Prussia, During the Revolutionary War; With his Political and Literary Correspondence and his Papers on Diplomatic and Political Subjects, and the Affairs of the United States During the Same Period
. 1829. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1969].
Potts, Louis W. Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Riggs, A.R. The Nine Lives of Arthur Lee, Virginia Patriot
. Williamsburg: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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