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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaGordon LEE
(1859-1927)
LEE, Gordon, a
Representative from Georgia; born near Ringgold, Catoosa County,
Ga., May 29, 1859; attended the common schools; was graduated from
Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1880; engaged in agricultural
pursuits and in manufacturing at Chickamauga, Ga.; member of the
State house of representatives in 1894 and 1895; served in the
State senate 1902-1904; appointed by Governor Atkinson a member of
the State memorial board; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth
and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1927);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1926; member of the
National Forest Reservation Commission created by the act of March
1, 1911; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1924;
resumed agricultural pursuits; died at Chickamauga, Ga., November
7, 1927; interment in Chickamauga Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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