Henry Lee IV

Henry Lee IV

Henry (Black Horse Harry) Lee IV (28 May, 1787 – 30 January, 1837) Biographer and historian born in Stratford, Virginia to Major General Light Horse Harry and Matilda Lee. He was a half-brother of General Robert E. Lee. In 1808 he graduated from William and Mary College. He married Anne Robinson McCarty on 29 March, 1817. He served as a speech writer for the statesman John C. Calhoun as well as the presidential candidate Andrew Jackson when Jackson won he helped to write the inaugural address. President Jackson rewarded Lee by a consular appointment to Algeria; the Senate refused the confirmation. His remaining seven years of his life he traveled abroad dying in Paris, France.

Literary Works

* "The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas." 1824
* "Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson." 1832
* "The Life of Emperor Napoleon." 1835

References

* Freeman, Douglas Southall "R. E. Lee: A Biography" Charles Scribner's Sons, New York and London, 1934. Ed. Bill Thayer online section at [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/Index*/L.html] Accessed February 23, 2008
* "Lee, Henry." "American Authors 1600 – 1900" H. W. Wilson Company, NY 1938.
* [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=samhsloan&id=I998 Thomas Jefferson's Family Tree] Accessed June 2, 2007
* Library of Congress [http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Lee%2C%20Henry%2C%201787%2D1837%2E&PID=2971&BROWSE=2&HC=3&SID=2] Accessed June 2, 2007
* [http://www.cleydael.org/lees.shtml cleydael.org] Accessed August 31, 2007

External links

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=grVfgwZd-ikC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Campaign+of+1781+in+the+Carolinas#PPR6,M1 The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=4ncEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%27%27Observations+on+the+Writings+of+Thomas+Jefferson&as_brr=1 Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=GG0JDfAqu_oC&pg=PA1&dq=The+Life+of+Emperor+Napoleon+Henry+lee&as_brr=1#PPP2,M1 The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte]


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