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Robert Emmett Lee (October 12, 1868 – November 19, 1916) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
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Biography

Robert E. Lee was born in
Pottsville, Pennsylvania Pottsville is the county seat of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,346 at the 2020 census, and is the principal city of the Pottsville, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies along the west bank of th ...
. He was apprenticed to the
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's trade, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Pottsville. He served as Schuylkill County treasurer in 1905, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in
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. Lee was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses. He served as Chairman of the
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during the Sixty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
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. He resumed his former business activities in Pottsville. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in
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. He died in Pottsville, aged 48, and is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery.


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The Political Graveyard
1868 births 1916 deaths Politicians from Pottsville, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub