He was born on a farm near Kosse, Texas, in Limestone County near Groesbeck, to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills.

Category: People from Lee County, Illinois

Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).

Robert Lee attended school at Eastern View, a school for young gentlemen, in Fauquier County, and then at the Alexandria Academy, free for local boys, where he showed an aptitude for mathematics.

Lee was born in Westmoreland County to Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee on January 20, 1732.

In 1757, Lee was appointed justice of the peace in Westmoreland County.

In 1766, almost ten years before the American Revolutionary War, Lee is credited with having authored the Westmoreland Resolution which was publicly signed by prominent landowners who met at Leedstown, Westmoreland County, Virginia on 27 Feb 1766.

In 1811 he purchased the estate Sully in Fairfax County, Virginia from his second cousin Richard Bland Lee.

Lee County, Georgia is named in his honor.

Sorbian has also been spoken in the small Sorbian (“ Wendish ”) settlement of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and it is possible that a few speakers still remain there.

Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in Lee County, Texas

* Ben Hur, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia

The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

* Lee County, Iowa

They were John Allen and John Edwards ( both from Bourbon County ), Henry Lee ( Mason County ), Thomas Kennedy ( Madison County ), and Robert Todd ( Fayette County ).

* Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia

The Battle of Brice's Crossroads was fought on June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn in Lee County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War.

Forrest soon surmised, correctly, that the Union had actually targeted Tupelo, Mississippi, located in Lee County, about south of Brice's Crossroads.

He chose Brice's Crossroads, in what is now Lee County, which featured four muddy roads, heavily wooded areas, and the natural boundary of Tishomingo Creek, which had only one bridge going east to west.

: See: Lee County Sheriff's Office

By the late 1980s, as fear of crime became Jeffersonians ' No. 1 concern, Lee sensed his continued political fortunes would have less to do with reforming the Sheriff's Office than in making his suburban constituents feel safe from the big city ills.

Department head Yong-ping Lee ( 李永萍 ) stated, " We will promote graffiti starting with the public sector, and then later in the private sector too.

Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Peel passed himself off as a reporter for the Liverpool Echo in order to attend the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald, and he and a friend can be seen in the footage of the 22 / 23 November midnight press conference at Dallas Police Department when Oswald was paraded before the media.

After Chicago, the Justice Department meted out conspiracy and incitement to riot charges in connection with the violence at Chicago and gave birth to the Chicago Eight, which consisted of Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale.

Lee also received various other titles: in 1776, he was named Commander of the so-called Canadian Department, although he never got to serve in this capacity.

In an effort of bringing more Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo " exiled " his over-ambitious chief of General Political Warfare Department, General Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador ( November 1983 ), and hand-picked Lee Teng-hui as vice-president of the Republic of China ( formally elected May 1984 ), first-in-the-line of succession to the presidency.

During the Wen Ho Lee scandal, involving stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory, hearings were called in Congress regarding the Department of Energy's handling of the matter.

Lee Arrendale is also home to the United States ' first all-female fire department and the state's first inmate fire department, thanks to the Georgia Department of Corrections ' ( GDC ) Fire Services Division.

* Lee W. Smith – diplomat, U. S. State Department

Fixed-route bus and trolley service is provided by the Lee County Transit Department, operated as LeeTran ( Web Site ).

" The Shiprock Chapter is under the spot light by the Navajo Department of Justice because of a complaint filed on Jan. 23, alleges chapter President William Lee, Vice President Donald Benally and Secretary Lula Jackson wrote checks to each other and offered pay outs to employees and relatives.

On July 15, 1917, the War Department announced that the camp would be named in honor of General Robert E. Lee, the most famous of the Confederate Civil War commanders.

In October 1940, the War Department ordered the construction of another Camp Lee on the site of the earlier installation.

In 1946, the War Department announced that Camp Lee would be retained as a center for Quartermaster training.

On December 8, 1977, the New Jersey Department of Transportation approved a measure that Route 67 in downtown Fort Lee was declared a No Passing Zone.

* When officers of the Fort Lee Police Department executed a search of his home in 1999, DMX promptly surrendered himself on weapons possession charges.

Lee entered public service, first on the invitation of Attorney General Edward H. Levi to be an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division in the United States Department of Justice from 1975 to 1976, and then as Solicitor General of the United States from 1981 to 1985.

Patterson appointed Dr. Edward Lee Battles President of the Department of Evangelism.

* Lee, Y. T. " Crossed Molecular Beam Studies and Dynamics of Decomposition of Chemically Activated Radicals ", University of Chicago, United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( September 1973 ).

* Lee, Y. T. " Molecular-beam Studies of Primary Photochemical Processes ", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, United States Department of Energy, ( December 1982 ).

During the course of David Lee Roth's radio show, he maintained a relationship with Howard Stern News Department reporter Steve Langford.

Lee was publicly named by United States Department of Energy officials, including then-Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, as a suspect in the theft of classified nuclear-related documents from Los Alamos.

Judge James A. Parker apologized to Lee for the unfair manner in which he was held custody by the executive branch, and for being led by the executive branch to order his detention, stating that he was led astray by the executive branch through its Department of Justice, by its FBI, and its United States attorney.

Those attending included: Jim Stewart ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography ), Lee Somers ( University of Michigan ), Mark Flahan ( San Diego State University ), Woody Southerland ( Duke University ), John Heine ( Moss Landing Marine Laboratories ), Glen Egstrom ( University of California, Los Angeles ), John Duffy ( California Department of Fish and Game ), and James Corry ( United States Secret Service ).

J. D. Tippit ( September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963 ) was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department who, according to two government investigations including the Warren Commission, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.