Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General)

Charles Lee was the third of eleven children born at Leesylvania plantation in Prince William County to Henry Lee II and Lucy Grymes Lee. He served as U.S. Attorney General from 1795 to 1801 and briefly as acting Secretary of State (May–June 1800). He argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court including some of the early commerce-clause and treaty cases that defined the early republic. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Charles Lee (Attorney General) Website

He and his younger brother Edmund Jennings Lee Person Edmund Jennings Lee b. 1772 · d. 1843 Mayor of Alexandria (1815-1818), lawyer, and youngest brother of and . Lived from 1801 in his house at 428 North Washington Street, then bought at auction in 1828. married a pair of Lee sisters — Anne and Sally — the daughters of Richard Henry Lee Person Richard Henry Lee b. 1732 · d. 1794 Signer of the Declaration of Independence; introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress (June 7, 1776). His daughters Anne and Sally married and … , a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The double marriage knit the Alexandria branch of the Lee family tightly to the Stratford branch and produced a generation of Alexandria lawyers, mayors, and bank officers.