Talk:Charles Lee (Attorney General)

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I removed the link to the US Department of Justice website, and several facts taken from there. This Lee never served in the Contintental Congress, although three relatives did. He wasn't even named as a delegate. He was a local judge in Westmoreland County, but I don't know which court. He may have served one or more terms in Virginia's House of Delegates, but I can't prove it by any reference other than the DOJ website which I don't trust. Lou I 11:20, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

A new link to DoJ is back with some of the non-facts. Seems appropriate reference for Attorney General position. I removed a statement that Jefferson offered Lee a Supreme Court seat. The DoJ had that, saying it was the Chief Justice seat (which Jeff. never got to appoint). Clearly a confusion with the claim that Adams offered the CJ SC seat. I submitted a suggested update to the DoJ site. Added a ref to the House of Delegate term. MabryTyson (talk) 12:01, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

_ _ Bravo the good research & this good documentation. Presumably the Dab Charles Lee is relevant in offering Charles Lee (general), but its long What links here invites our efforts: virtually every lk to a Dab is a sign of problems.

_ _ The Dab Lee#People is very sparse, but List of people by name: Lee#Lee as sole surname (tho probably far from complete) suggests to me at a glance Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Sim Lee, and Light Horse Harry Lee. Does that exhaust your list?

_ _ Could a Lee Southern political family article be valuable for future problems like this one?
--Jerzy·t 16:59, 2005 August 9 (UTC)

There is already a list or outline at List of U.S. political families#The Lees. For a full list of the Continental Congress, see List of Continental Congress Delegates. Lou I 23:26, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to remove the assertion that Adams offered the Chief Justice seat to Lee. The source ("Lee of Virginia") had "it is said that..". Likely the author's confusion of the two. The timing of the resignation, the nomination of John Jay, the decline of Jay, the nomination of John Marshall leaves little time to offer it to Lee. If Lee declined, why would Adams then offer him a Circuit Court judgeship a month later, which was declined? It had all the disadvantages of a Supreme Court seat. What is in the page now (from "Lee of Virginia") re Circuit Court does not fully agree with what is at List of federal judges appointed by John Adams (which doesn't seem self-consistent to me). I will try to find proper sources. (FYI, any confusion about being a delegate to the Continental Congress likely comes from the fact that in 1780 he was the Secretary of the Board of the Treasury for the Continental Congress. So, he was an officer of the C.C. but not a delegate.) MabryTyson (talk) 09:34, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

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