Silas Lee

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

Career

Silas Lee enjoyed a classical education and then studied until 1784 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In the years 1793, 1797 and 1798, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1798, Lee was elected the twelfth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Isaac Parker on March 4, 1799. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on August 20, 1801 in Congress. During this time, the new federal capital of Washington DC was related. Since 1802 until his death he was Attorney General for the State of Maine District of the State of Massachusetts, from the 1820 State of Maine should arise. Lee also served as justice of the peace and in 1805 as restructuring judge. He died on March 1, 1814 in Wiscasset in present-day Maine, where he was also buried.