Robert E. Lee was born in
Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He was apprenticed to the
blacksmith's trade, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Pottsville. He served as
Schuylkill County treasurer in 1905, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in
1908. Lee was elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-second and
Sixty-third Congresses. He served as Chairman of the
United States House Committee on Mileage during the Sixty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1914. He resumed his former business activities in Pottsville. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in
1916. He died in Pottsville, aged 48, and is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery. ==Sources==