Frank Hood Lee was a U.S. Representative

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 from Missouri

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Born on a farm near De Soto, Kansas

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, Lee moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled near Virgil City

Virgil City, Missouri

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 in Vernon County in 1876. He attended the public schools of Virgil City and studied law.

He served as Justice of the Peace

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 in 1894. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Joplin, Missouri

Joplin, Missouri

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. He served as member of the Missouri House of Representatives

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 for two terms, 1915-1918.

Congress

Lee was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress. He was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

After Congress

He resumed the practice of law until his retirement. He owned and operated The Southwestern, a Jasper County newspaper, and the Jefferson Hotel. He died in Joplin, Missouri

Joplin, Missouri

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, November 20, 1952, and was interred in Ozark Memorial Park.