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ARTHUR LEE

Arthur Lee was an American politician. He was born in 1740 at Virginia and died in 1793. The brother of R H Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, he was prominent as author of the 'Monitor's Letters', 'An Appeal to the English Nation' and 'Junius Americanus'. In 1770 he was appointed London agent of the Massachusetts colony. In 1776 he was appointed with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane to secure a treaty of alliance with France. In 1777 and 1778 he was commissioner to Spain and Prussia. From 1782 to 1785 he was a member of the Continental Congress. From 1784 to 1789 he was a member of the Board of Treasury of the Confederation. He opposed the adoption of the Constitution.
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