A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1951.

He attended Glenville State Normal School and West Virginia University, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, and was admitted to the bar in 1897.

He was chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses.

A confidential 1943 analysis of the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Isaiah Berlin for the British Foreign Office stated that[1] Judge Kee has been in the House for ten years, and, while he has voted steadily for all the President's foreign policies, he is not either a forceful, influential or noticeably active member of the committee.Kee died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 1951.

[2] His wife, Elizabeth Kee, succeeded him as U.S. Representative after winning a special election to replace him.