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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriFrank Hood LEE
(1873-1952)
LEE, Frank Hood, a
Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near De Soto, Johnson
County, Kans., March 29, 1873; moved to Missouri with his parents,
who settled near Virgil City, Vernon County, in 1876; attended the
public schools of Virgil City, Mo.; studied law; served as justice
of the peace in 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced
practice in Joplin, Mo.; member of the State house of
representatives 1915-1918; unsuccessful candidate for election in
1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and in 1930 to the Seventy-second
Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress
(March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed the
practice of law until his retirement; owned and operated the
Southwestern, a Jasper County newspaper, and the Jefferson Hotel;
died in Joplin, Mo., November 20, 1952; interment in Ozark Memorial
Park.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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