Lester H. Clee

[1] At a young age he was forced by his father's illness to go to Worcester, Massachusetts, to work in a steel mill.

He started a boys' club among his fellow mill workers and in 1908 began working for the Young Men's Christian Association in Quincy, Massachusetts.

[1] Clee educated himself for the ministry while serving as assistant to the pastor of West End Presbyterian Church in New York City from 1918 to 1921.

[2] Clee was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1934 on the Essex County Clean Government ticket.

The Hudson returns were widely suspected to be fraudulent, the result of political boss Frank Hague's tight control on the county's electoral process.