She registered to vote on November 8, 1911, in California following the passage of Proposition 4 in California, nine years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Lee registered to vote at the Alameda County courthouse on November 8, 1911.

[1]Lee was a founder of the Chinese Women's Jeleab (self reliance) Association, created in 1913.

[3] Clara Elizabeth (Yee Miew) Chan was born October 21, 1886, in Portland, Oregon.

[5] She died October 5, 1993, in Alameda, California, and is interred in Oakland.