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	Richard Henry Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732–June 19, 1794) was the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785.
		Lee was born in Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia on January 20, 1732.
		Lee was elected by the state legislature of Virginia to be one of its first two United States Senators, but he was forced to resign in 1792 due to ill health.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee (415 words)

	RICHARD HENRY LEE - LoveToKnow Article on RICHARD HENRY LEE
		Richard Henry Lee received an academic education in England, then speiit a little time in travel, returned to Virginia in 1752, having come into possession of a fine property left him by his father, and for several years applied himself to varied studies.
		Lee was one of the delegates from Virginia to the first Continental Congress at Philadelphia in 1774, and prepared the address to the people of British America, and the second address to the people of Great Britain, which are among the most effective papers of the time.
		Lee was in Congress from, 1774 to 1780, and was especially prominent in connection with foreign affairs.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEE_RICHARD_HENRY.htm (902 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of Richard Henry Lee
		Richard Henry Lee, a descendant from an ancient and distinguished family in Virginia, was born in Westmoreland county, of that province, on the twentieth of January, 1732.
		Lee received the unanimous suffrage of the district in which be resided to the assembly of Virginia, by which he was deputed to represent the colony in the second congress, which was to meet on the tenth of May of that year.
		Lee to furnish, as the chairman of a committee appointed for that purpose.
	www.colonialhall.com /leerh/leerh.php (2490 words)

	Richard Henry Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was not surprising that it came from Lee's pen—as early as 1768 he proposed the idea of committees of correspondence among the colonies, and in 1774 he proposed that the colonies meet in what became the Continental Congress.
		Lee also proposed to the First Continental Congress that a militia be organized and armed—the year before the first shots were fired at Lexington; but this and other proposals of his were considered too radical—at the time.
		Three days after Lee introduced his resolution, in June of 1776, he was appointed by Congress to the committee responsible for drafting a declaration of independence, but he was called home when his wife fell ill, and his place was taken by his young protégé, Thomas Jefferson.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/8/lee.html (483 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Richard Henry Lee
		Richard was born on the 20th of January 1732, at his family's plantation, near Stratford, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
		Richards openly advocating independence from the British Crown in the spring of 1776, led to him being chosen to move the issue of independence in congress.
		Richard's opposition to the constitution was base on the fact that it called for a strong central government, one thing he did not ever intend to have again.
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	Richard Henry Lee: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Richard Henry Lee
		Richard Henry Lee was the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1775.
		Due to Lee's absence from the Congress because of his wife's illness, it was Thomas Jefferson who was chosen to write the Declaration.
		Lee was elected by the people of Virginia to be one of their first two United States Senators, but he was forced to resign in 1792 due to ill health.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ri/Richard-Henry-Lee.html (379 words)

	Richard Henry Lee
		Richard Henry Lee (brother of F.L. Lee) was born to an aristocratic family at Stratford, in Westmoreland county, Virginia.
		That being the era of the French and Indian War, Lee formed a militia troop of young men in his neighborhood, was elected the leader, and marched his troop to a council in Alexandria where General Braddock was preparing a campaign on the Ohio river.
		In 1757 Lee was appointed Justice of the Peace, and was shortly thereafter elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/signers/rhlee.htm (296 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Richard Henry Lee: Gentleman Radical
		Richard Henry Lee entered the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1758, and was immediately recognized as the most talented speaker in that body.
		Richard Henry Lee was a part of Adams' network, and employed the same sort of tactics against the Stamp Act in the 1760s.
		Lee was astute enough to recognize that the chance of securing military aid from France was the real selling point for the resolution on independence, that it was the only practical way to sell congressional moderates on the idea.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2001/072001/07072001/324163 (2109 words)

	Richard Henry Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lee moved, in the house of burgesses, a petition to the king, setting forth in pointed terms the grievances of the colonies.
		Lee served on more than a hundred committees, and his labors in congress were so arduous as to injure his health, so that he was several times obliged to go home and devote himself to recruiting his strength.
		Lee came to be a warm supporter of Washington's administration, and especially approved of his course in the affair of "citizen" Genet.
	www.richardhenrylee.com (3095 words)

	Encyclopedia: Richard Henry Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Lee Resolution, or sometimes Lees Resolution, was proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia to the Second Continental Congress on June 7, 1776.
		A declaration of independence is a proclamation of the independence of a newly formed or reformed independent state, usually from a part or the whole of the territory of another nation, or a document containing such a declaration.
		Francis Lightfoot Lee (October 14, 1734–January 11, 1797), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Virginia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Henry-Lee (2688 words)

	RICHARD HENRY LEE - THE ARCHITECT OF INDEPENDENCE MUST BE TURNING IN HIS GRAVE!
		Lee was either an extremely insightful and intelligent man when it came to politics; or he had a crystal ball.
		Richard's opposition to the Constitution was based on the fact that it called for a strong central government; and Lee feared that individual states would lose rights and power.
		Lee, his younger protégé Thomas Jefferson, and the strict Constructionists insisted that all powers not specifically granted the federal government be reserved to the states.
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	Richard Henry Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry was the oldest of four boys and was educated by private tutoring at his family home.
		Richard Henry served on 18 different committees - none as important as his appointment to frame the Declaration of Rights of the Colonies, which led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
		Lee was a member of the Virginia committee then appointed, and about this time he wrote to Samuel Adams a letter, which was the beginning of the lifelong friendship between the two great leaders.
	www.gamepuppet.com /presidents/richard-lee.htm (322 words)

	Richard Henry Lee
		Tall, thin and aristocratic in appearance, Richard Henry Lee was a born orator.
		Among the signers were Richard Henry, Thomas, Francis Lightfoot, and William Lee and the four brothers of George Washington.
		The call for an inter-colonial congress was made, and Richard Henry was chosen as one of the seven-man Virginia delegation to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
	www.stratfordhall.org /richardh.html?HISTORY (604 words)

	Richard Henry Lee
		Richard Henry Lee was one of the leading lights of the Revolutionary generation and played important roles at almost every stage of America’s drive for independence.
		Lee entered public service as a justice of the peace in Virginia and was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1758.
		Lee was an outspoken advocate of Anti-Federalist opposition to ratification of the Constitution, fearing that the states were being asked to surrender too much power.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1217.html (574 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Declaration (Richard Henry Lee)
		Richard Henry Lee, brilliant orator and fiery Revolutionary leader, introduced the independence resolution in the Continental Congress, served for awhile as its President, and later became a U.S. Senator.
		Lee's outstanding congressional act was the introduction on June 7, 1776, of the resolution for independence from Britain, seconded by John Adams.
		This document, Lee's condensed redraft of one forwarded him by a convention that had met in Williamsburg on May 15, proposed severing relations with Britain, the forming of foreign alliances, and preparation of a plan for confederation.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/declaration/bio26.htm (814 words)

	Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee
		A brilliant orator, Richard Henry Lee was a justice of peace in Westmoreland and a longtime member of the House of Burgesses (1758-1775) prior to being involved in the First and Second Continental Congresses.
		Richard Henry Lee milited against the Stamp Act and with his brothers Francis and William organized resistance in Westmoreland county against this abusive English taxation.
		Richard Henry was the leader of the Lee brothers who fanned and nurtured the Independence movement like few other families in Virginia.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/planter_aristocrats/stratford_lees2.asp (214 words)

	Richard Henry Lee Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Tall and aristocratic in bearing, Richard Henry Lee was an impassioned supporters of American independence in Virginia and later a prominent antagonist of the federal constitution.
		In later years, Lee supported the Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance, believing (as a child of the Ohio Company) that revenue from western lands would be beneficial to the new state, and he unsuccessfully submitted an amendment to allow federal support for religion.
		Lee was twice married, first to Anne Aylett in 1757, with whom he had four children, and second, in 1768, to Anne Gaskins Pinckard, with whom he had five children.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/l/lee.htm (2607 words)

	Timeline Bio: Richard Henry Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richard Henry Lee was an American patriot and prominent opponent of the Constitution of 1787.
		Born in Virginia to a family of early settlers of that colony and educated in England, Lee was among the first to advocate independence for the colonies.
		Lee came to oppose the unconditional ratification of the US Constitution, and emerged as one of the more prominent Anti-Federalists.
	www.founding.com /timeline/bio.cfm?id=20 (100 words)

	RICHARDHENRYLEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richard Henry Lee was born in 1732 at Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
		Lee was intrigued by politics from a very young age.
		A true revolutionary, Lee was one of the first men to express opposition to British rule, and he was one of Patrick Henry’s first supporters.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/LeeRichard.html (316 words)

	The Lee Family Branch
		"Richard Henry Lee was born in Virginia in 1732.
		His son 'Light Horse Harry' Lee was a hero of the Revolutionary War and later was elected to Congress from Virginia and was elected to write and present the eulogy to Washington when the first president died (first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of this countrymen).
		"Richard Henry Lee was a delegate from Virginia to the first Continental Congress and was the outspoken protestor against the British monarchy encrouchments on the American colonies.
	borntoexplore.org /home/lees.htm (899 words)

	Ancestors of Alana, Alyssa, and Ryan Richard Henry Lee I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In sequence, Richard Lee was Sheriff and Burgess of York county, Secretary of State and member of the Council.
		Richard Lee left a considerable estate in Essex, England to Elizabeth and her sister Ann and her share of the proceeds from its sale help to establish Leonard as one of the more prosperous land owners of Northumberland County.
		Lee is said to have been the first white man to settle in the Northern Neck of Virginia.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~westxan/6892.htm (537 words)

	American Revolution: Richard Henry Lee
		Richard Henry Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on January 20, 1732.
		Richard was elected for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1758.
		In 1774, Richard Henry Lee was elected to the Continental Congress.
	library.thinkquest.org /TQ0312848/rhlee.htm (336 words)

	Richard Henry Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In late 1765, Lee reportedly led a "mob of gentlemen" to confront an official stamp collector and force him to promise never again to perform his duty as a stamp collector.
		Later, in February 1766, Lee gathered the citizens of his own county together into an "association" to agree to stop importing British goods until the Stamp Act was repealed.
		Lee, along with Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and a few other burgesses, wrote the 1774 resolution to make June 1, the day when the port of Boston was closed, a day of "Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer" in support of the citizens of Boston.
	www.history.org /Almanack/people/bios/biolee.cfm (249 words)

	Richard Henry Lee Biography / Biography of Richard Henry Lee Biography Biography
		Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), American patriot and statesman, led early resistance in Virginia to British rule.
		Richard Henry Lee was born into a family long prominent in Virginia's history.
		With Henry he shared leadership of the "progressive" faction in the House and led the colony's vigorous opposition to the new British tax measures after 1764.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-richard-henry-lee (236 words)

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