M. Lindley Lee

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

Career

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

In the congressional elections of 1858 for the 36th Congress, Lee was in the 22nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry C. Goodwin on March 4, 1859. He retired after March 3, 1861 from the Congress. About a month later, the Civil War broke out.

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