Lee was elected sheriff of Calumet County, Wisconsin in 1862 and appointed Undersheriff in 1865.
He was elected in 1871 as a Democrat for a new district, nominally the 3rd Brown County Assembly district, which included the Village of De Pere, and the Towns of De Pere, Glenmore, Holland, Morrison, New Denmark and Rockland in Brown County, plus the Towns of Carlton, Franklin and Montpelier, in Kewaunee County.
[2] He was not a candidate in the next election, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat Dennis Dewane.
[3] He later spent a two-year term (1877-78) as Sheriff of Brown County.
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