Joshua Lee

Joshua Lee (* 1783 in Hudson , New York , † December 29, 1842 in Penn Yan , New York) was an American doctor and politician . Between 1835 and 1837 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joshua Lee was born in Columbia County during the last year of the Revolutionary War . He studied medicine . In 1804 he received his license to practice medicine . Governor Daniel D. Tompkins put it in 1811 for Surgeon in Colonel Avery Smith 's infantry regiment one - a post he during the British-American war held. In 1815 he was a supervisor in the town of Benton in Yates County . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1817 and 1833 . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the congressional elections of 1834 for the 24th Congress , Lee was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 27th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Edward Howell on March 4, 1835 . He retired from the after 3 March 1837 Congress of.

After his time at Congress he went back to his work as a doctor. In 1839 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the New York Senate . He died in Penn Yan about four years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . His body was then interred in Lake View Cemetery .

Web links

• Joshua Lee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joshua Lee in the database of Find a Grave (English)