M. Lindley Lee

Moses Lindley Lee (born May 29, 1805 in Minisink , New York , † May 19, 1876 in Petersburg , Virginia ) was an American doctor and politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Moses Lindley Lee was born in Orange County about seven years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He studied classical antiquity . He graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1827 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Western New York in 1830 . He practiced as a doctor in Fulton , Oswego County . Between 1840 and 1844 he was postmaster at Fulton. He sat in the New York State Assembly in 1847 and 1848, and in the New York Senate in 1855 . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1858 for the 36th Congress , Lee was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd constituency of New York , where he succeeded Henry C. Goodwin on March 4, 1859 . He retired from the after March 3, 1861 Congress of. Civil war broke out about a month later .

After his time in Congress, he resumed his work as a doctor in Fulton. On the way back from a visit to the southern states, he fell seriously ill in Petersburg and died there on May 19, 1876. His body was then buried in Mount Adnah Cemetery in Fulton.

Web links

• M. Lindley Lee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• M. Lindley Lee in the database of Find a Grave (English)