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Biography
Gideon Lee (April 27, 1778 – August 21, 1841) was an American politician who was the 60th Mayor of New York City and United States Representative from New York.
Life
He attended the common schools. He became a shoemaker in Worthington, Massachusetts. He moved first to New York City and then to Georgia, where he was in the mercantile business. He returned to New York in 1807 and engaged in the leather business.
Politics
He served as member of the New York State Assembly in 1823, and as alderman from 1828 to 1830. He was Mayor of New York from 1833 to 1834, but declined to be a candidate for reelection.
Lee was elected as a Jacksonian to the 24th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Campbell P. White and served from November 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837. He then retired and moved to Geneva, New York.
He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840, voting for William Henry Harrison and John Tyler.
He was buried at the Washington Street Cemetery in Geneva, New York.