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Sources consulted for the biography of:Alexander G. Lee ( –by 1901)
Biographical Information
- United States Census Schedules, Elizabeth City Co., 1870 (age 39; with second wife's name as Nelly), 1880 (age 45), 1900 (born Nov. 1842), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Possible first wife identified in record of son Nicholas Lee's 1891 marriage in Elizabeth City County Marriage Register (1865–1908) and in Nicholas Lee's death certificate (Hampton, 1922), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Employment history in various editions of Official Register of the United States (1869–1889).
- Several references in general index to Elizabeth City County deed books.
- Personal Property Tax Returns, Elizabeth City Co., 1867–1901, with final listing in 1901 as "Alex G. Lee (sr.) (est.)," Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 24–25.
Political Career
- 1867 Poll Book, Colored, Elizabeth City County First District, Military Rule Election Records of the Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth, Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 6 (1873), 13 (1877), 14 (1879), and 24 (1887), Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 5, 1873; August 21, 1875.
- Norfolk Virginian, Aug. 30, 1882; Sept. 2, 1886.
- Richmond Dispatch, November 11, 1887.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1877–1878 sess.), 35–36, 104, 284–285, 369 (quotation), 434, 487, 513–514.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1878–1879 sess.), 546.
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