Joseph E. Lee (September 15, 1849 – March 25, 1920) was a lawyer, judge, federal official, and Republican politician in Florida. He served six years in the Florida House of Representatives and one term in the Florida State Senate and was also a municipal judge and in various Federal positions in Florida.
Lee was born in Philadelphia. He earned his law degree from Howard University in 1873.
He was a minister in the A.M.E. Church and married a woman named Rosa.
The Jacksonville Historical Society has a collection of his papers. In April 2020, a talk was scheduled at the Jacksonville Historical Society on Lee.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
Further reading Joseph E. Lee of Jacksonville, 1880-1920: African-American Political Leadership in Florida by Gary Vincent Goodwin, Florida State University (1996)
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