Arthur Lee
1740 – 1792
Arthur Lee represented American interests in Europe, serving in that capacity alongside Benjamin Franklin in London for a time, as well as in Spain and Prussia. Like Thomas Jefferson and Franklin, he saw slavery as an evil fostered by imperial policy.
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Arthur Lee was a member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia and was educated at Eton College in England and later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and law in London. Later in his life, he returned to Virginia to briefly represent his state in Congress.
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