Richard Henry Lee

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American statesman Founding Father of the United States human

Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia who introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress and later signed the Declaration of Independence.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American statesman → Founding Father of the United States → human →
advocatedFor	Bill of Rights →
burialPlace	Lee family cemetery, Westmoreland County, Virginia →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1732-01-20 →
dateOfDeath	1794-06-19 →
ethnicGroup	English American →
familyName	Lee →
father	Thomas Lee →
givenName	Richard →
introduced	Lee Resolution →
memberOf	Continental Congress → United States Senate → Virginia House of Burgesses →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Anti-Administration Party →
mother	Hannah Harrison Ludwell →
notableFamily	Lee family of Virginia →
notableWork	Lee Resolution →
occupation	planter → politician → statesman →
participantIn	American Revolutionary War → First Continental Congress → Second Continental Congress → Virginia Ratifying Convention →
placeOfBirth	Westmoreland County, Virginia →
placeOfDeath	Westmoreland County, Virginia →
politicalAlignment	Anti-Federalist →
positionHeld	Member of the Continental Congress → Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses → President of the Continental Congress → President pro tempore of the United States Senate → United States Senator from Virginia →
religion	Anglicanism →
represented	Virginia →
residence	Chantilly plantation, Virginia →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Arthur Lee → Francis Lightfoot Lee → William Lee →
signed	United States Declaration of Independence →
spouse	Anne Aylett → Anne Gaskins Pinckard →
supported	American independence from Great Britain →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anti-Federalists → Committees of Correspondence → House of Burgesses →	notableMember
Westmoreland County, Virginia →	birthplaceOf
Lee Resolution →	hasAuthor
First United States Congress →	hasPresidentProTempore
Second Continental Congress →	member
First Continental Congress →	notableDelegate
United States in Congress Assembled →	notablePresidingOfficer
Stratford Hall →	notableResident
President of the Continental Congress →	officeHolder
Federal Farmer →	possibleRealIdentity
Lee Resolution →	proposedBy
Arthur Lee →	sibling
United States Declaration of Independence →	signer