Biography

05/30/1890 - 03/16/1954

LEE, Thomas Henry, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 30, 1890 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Temple University; served, United States Navy (World War I); attorney (1923-1954); mercantile appraiser, Philadelphia (1935-1939); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1941 term and served 4 consecutive terms thereafter; appointed, Joint State Government Commission (1943-1950: chair, Committee on Decedents’ Estates Laws , 1945-1948); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1950); died, March 16, 1954 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.