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About Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General
2. Hon. Charles Lee (1758–1815), U.S. Attorney General. Charles married:
- Anne Lee (1770–1804), daughter of Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) and his second wife, Anne (Gaskins) Pinckard.
- Margaret Christian (Scott) Peyton (1783–1843), widow of Yelverton Peyton (1771–1802). Margaret was the daughter of Rev. John Scott (1747–1785) and Elizabeth Gordon
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Charles Lee (1758 – June 24, 1815) was an American lawyer from Virginia. He served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801.
Charles was born to Henry (1729-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee on his father's plantation of Leesylvania in Prince William County, Virginia. He was the third of eleven children and a younger brother of General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee. Another brother was Congressman Richard Bland Lee. A third cousin was Zachary Taylor. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1775, and then read law with Jared Ingersoll in Philadelphia before returning to Virginia.
Charles married Anne Lee (1 December 1770-9 September 1804), a cousin and the daughter of Richard Henry Lee (his first cousin once removed) in 1789. Before her death in 1804 the couple had six children; Anne Lucinda Lee (1790-1845), Infant Son Lee (1791-1791), Richard Henry Lee (Feb 1793-Mar 1793), Charles Henry Lee (b. Oct 1794), William Arthur Lee (b. Sept 1796), Alfred Lee (1799-1865). He married a second time in 1809, to Margaret Scott (1783-1843), and had three more children in this union; Robert Eden Lee (1810-1843), Elizabeth Gordon Lee (1813-1813), Alexander Lee (1815-1815).
President Washington appointed Lee the Attorney General after William Bradford died in office. After Senate approval he took office on December 10, 1795 and served through the rest of the administration. He was continued in office by John Adams and served through the entire Adams administration until February 19, 1801.
During his term in office Lee lived in Alexandria, which was then part of the capital district. He was an early advocate for the return of the southern part of the District of Columbia to Virginia which finally happened in 1847. After his time as Attorney General, he became the port officer for the District of the Potomac and among the most prominent trial lawyers in Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Lee represented William Marbury and other appointees of John Adams in Marbury v. Madison, the landmark case against the Jefferson administration for unfulfilled political appointments. Simultaneously, he defended Hugh Stuart in Stuart v. Laird.
He declined Thomas Jefferson's offer to appoint him a justice of the Supreme Court.
Lee died in 1815 in Fauquier County, Virginia, aged 56 or 57, and is buried in the Warrenton Cemetery in Warrenton.
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- Residence: 1810 - Prince William, Virginia, United States
- Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Sep 10 2023, 19:32:17 UTC
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Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General's Timeline
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Leesylvania Plantation, Prince William, Virginia, British Colonial America
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May 5, 1790
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Fairfax, Virginia, United States
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October 1794
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July 2, 1799
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Alexandria, Va
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