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Lee, William E

banker, legislator, was born Jan. 8, 1852, in Alton, Ill. He served three terms as a member of the Minnesota legislature, and was speaker of the house in 1893. He was superintendent of the state reformatory at St. Cloud; and for four years was on the governor's staff with rank of major. He is a president of the bank of Long Prairie, Minn.

LEE, WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH, soldier, congressman, was born May 31, 1837, in Arlington, Va. In 1861 he raised a company of cavalry and joined the army of northern Virginia; served in every grade successively from captain to majorgeneral of cavalry. He represented his senatorial district in the Virginia state senate for one term, declining a renomination. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.

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