Silas Lee

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Silas Lee

Silas Lee (born July 3, 1760 in Concord , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  March 1, 1814 in Wiscasset , Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1799 and 1801 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Silas Lee enjoyed a classical education and then studied at Harvard University until 1784 . After completing a law degree, he was admitted to the bar. Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s . He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1793, 1797, and 1798 .

In the congressional election of 1798 Lee was elected to the US House of Representatives in the twelfth constituency of Massachusetts, where he succeeded Isaac Parker on March 4, 1799 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on August 20, 1801 . During this time, the new federal capital Washington, DC was moved. From 1802 until his death he was a federal attorney for the Maine district of the state of Massachusetts, from which the state of Maine was to emerge in 1820 . Lee also served as justice of the peace and from 1805 as probate judge. He died on March 1, 1814 in Wiscasset, present-day Maine, where he was also buried.

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