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LEE  than before. In 1779 his commission was revoked in consequence of an insulting note to the presiding officer of Congress. He died on Oct. 2, 1782. See his Life by Jared Sparks in his Library of American Biography and that by G. H. Moore.  Lee, Fitzhugh, an American soldier, was born in Fairfax County, Va., Nov. 19, 1835. He graduated at West Point in 1856. At the Civil War he entered the Confederate service, advancing to the rank of major-general. In 1885 he was elected governor of Virginia, serving until 1890. He was appointed consul-general to Havana by President Cleveland, and was retained at that post by President McKinley. He cared for the interests of the United States with signal ability during the investigation of the destruction of the Maine and throughout the trying times preceding the Spanish-American War. In that war he served as major-general of volunteers, and after peace was declared he was made governor of the province of Havana. He was later appointed brigadier-general in the regular army, retiring in 1901. He died in 1905.  Lee, Henry, a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Virginia, Jan, 29, 1756. He gradu u ated at Princeton College, and in 1776 was appointed a captain of cavalry, and in the following year joined the main army. His vigor and ability attracted the attention of Washington, and his command was soon distinguished for the rapidity of movement and soldierly daring which afterward made Lee's legion so famous and gave him the name of Light-Horse Harry. In 1786 Lee was sent to Congress by the Virginia assembly, and in 1792 he was elected governor of Virginia. As a member of Congress, at the death of Washington in 1799, he was appointed to prepare the eulogy upon the life and character of his dead chieftain. His resolutions contained the often quoted words: “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Lee was in Baltimore in 1814, when the office of The Federal Republican was sacked by a mob. He took an active part against them, and with his friends was placed in jail for safe-keeping, but the mob broke into the building and killed or seriously injured all its inmates. Lee never recovered from his injuries, and soon made a voyage to the West Indies in a vain search of health. He died on March 25, 1818.  Lee, Richard Henry, a Revolutionary statesman and orator, was born in Virginia, Jan. 20, 1732. Soon after he was of age he

was elected a delegate to the house of burgesses, where his first speech was in opposition to slavery, which he proposed to abolish by placing a heavy tax on all future importation of slaves. In 1767 he spoke against the acts which levied duties upon tea and other articles, and in the following year he suggested private correspondence between the friends of liberty in the different colonies. He is also said to have originated the idea of a congress of the colonies, which was carried into effect in 1774, when the first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. Lee was one of the delegates from Virginia, and took active part in its deliberations, the delegates from other colonies being not only impressed with his great ability and knowledge, but with the “fire and splendor” of his eloquence. He also wrote the address to the people of Great Britain, directed by Congress in 1775, which was one of the strongest state papers of the time. On June 7, 1776, by the instruction of the Virginia house of burgesses, he introduced the famous resolutions declaring “that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown.” During his long service Lee became a warm supporter of Washington, sustaining him in all the more important acts of his administration. He was popular on account of his liberality and amiable disposition as well as his ardent patriotism. He retired from public life in 1792, and died on June 19, 1794. See Life by R. H. Lee.  Lee, Robert Edward, “Marse Robert,” as the great military leader of the Confederacy was affectionately called by the people of the south, died five years after the close of the Civil War. He knew the day would come when Blue and Grey would clasp hands above all those graves. Could he have lived until the centenary of his own birth, Jan. 19, 1907, he would have heard his eulogy pronounced by a Massachusetts Adams. He would have seen all parties and a national press united to do honor not only to his genius as one of the greatest soldiers America has produced, but also to the nobility of his character as a man.

Lee was born at Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father was 