Biography: Lee, Samuel J.

Samuel Lee

Biography: Lee, Samuel J.

06/08/2016

Biography

South Carolina Encyclopedia features a 2016 biography, by Professor W. Lewis Burke, on the life of Samuel Jones Lee- a formerly enslaved man who later became an attorney and the first Black Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives (R - SC). Themes include: Lee's ambiguous parentage, uncertainty about his participation in the Confederate Army, challenges during his political career, his law practice in Charleston, and his involvement in "state 'colored' militia.

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