Richard Henry Lee

Richard Henry Lee, of the Stratford Hall branch of the Virginia Lees, served in the Continental Congress and is best known for introducing the resolution that became the Declaration of Independence on June 7, 1776. He served as President of the Confederation Congress and was one of Virginia’s first U.S. senators.

His Alexandria connection is genealogical rather than residential: two of his daughters married into the Alexandria-resident Leesylvania branch — Anne to 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 Sally to 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. — producing the dense intra-family network of Alexandria mayors, lawyers, and bank officers that defines the early nineteenth-century elite. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Charles Lee (Attorney General) Website