Blair Lee I

Francis Preston Blair Lee ( born August 9, 1857 in Silver Spring, Maryland, † December 25, 1944 in Norwood, Maryland ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Maryland 1914-1917 in the U.S. Senate. His great-grandfather Richard Henry Lee was president of the Continental Congress and the first U.S. Senator for Virginia, his grandson Blair Lee was 1971-1979 Governor of Maryland.

Lee, whose father Samuel Phillips Lee served as a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, first attended the public schools and then Princeton University, where he graduated in 1880. Two years later, the graduate of the Law Faculty of Columbian College, which later became George Washington University. In 1883 he was admitted to the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and Montgomery County and began practicing in Maryland.

1896, Lee applied for the first time a political mandate, but missed election to the U.S. House of Representatives. For this, he drew 1905 in the Senate of Maryland, where he remained until 1913. In 1911 he ran for governor of Maryland, but was defeated Phillips Lee Goldsborough.

On November 4, 1913 Blair Lee was then elected to the U.S. Senator. He joined the Congress in the footsteps of William Purnell Jackson, who in turn had taken the place of the late Isidor Rayner, but was not taken up in the by-election to the mandate. Lee took over the chairmanship of the Committee to control expenditure in the Ministry of Postal Services ( Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department), but resigned in 1917 after misguided re-election of the parliamentary chamber. He then worked again as a lawyer.