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Richard Bland Lee

b. 1761 · d. 1827

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia (1789-1795); brother of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III Person Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III b. 1756 · d. 1818 Continental Army cavalry officer, ninth governor of Virginia, and father of . Sold the Oronoco Street property in 1784 to his cousin that became the . , Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General) Person Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General) b. 1758 · d. 1815 United States Attorney General (1795-1801) under presidents Washington and Adams; brother of and . Practiced law in Alexandria; married Anne Lee, daughter of Declaration signer . , and 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. .
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Biography


Richard Bland Lee served three terms in the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia in the First, Second, and Third Congresses. A son of Henry Lee II and Lucy Grymes of Leesylvania, he was an early federalist with substantial Alexandria business and family ties; his name appears on the 1792 deed records associated with the 614 Oronoco Street Place 614 Oronoco Street Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family members through the nineteenth century … and on numerous early-republic Alexandria legal instruments. [1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Charles Lee (Attorney General) Website

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    Wikipedia, "Charles Lee (Attorney General)," accessed 2026.

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