Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh

Life Span
to
    Full name
    William Henry Lee
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    4
    Family
    Robert E. Lee (father), Mary Anna Randolph Custis (mother), Charlotte Wickham (first wife), Mary Tabb Bolling (second wife)
    Education
    Harvard
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Farmer or Planter
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Confederate Army

    William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    LEE, William Henry Fitzhugh, (grandson of Henry Lee), a Representative from Virginia; born at Arlington House, Arlington, Va., May 31, 1837; attended private school and Harvard University; appointed second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, United States Infantry, and accompanied his regiment in 1858 in the expedition to Utah; resigned in 1859; returned to Virginia and took charge of his estates near White House, New Kent County, in 1859; during the Civil War he raised a company of Cavalry in 1861 and joined the Confederate service; was promoted successively from captain to major general of Cavalry; returned to his plantation; moved to Ravensworth, near Burke Station, Va., in 1874 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State senate 1875-1878 and served as presiding officer; served as president of the State agricultural society; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, until his death in Ravensworth, Va., on October 15, 1891; interment in the family burying ground at Ravensworth; reinterment in the crypt, Lee Memorial Chapel, Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Va., in September 1922.
    "Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000208.
    How to Cite This Page: "Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6083.