Lee, Percy Maxim, 1906-

Former president, League of Women Voters; interviewee married John Glessner Lee.

Lee was president of the National League of Women Voters and appointed chairman of the Consumers' Advisory Council by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Percy Maxim Lee, political and civic volunteer, was born on July 6, l906, in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Josephine (Hamilton), a suffragist, and Hiram Percy Maxim, an inventor and early automobile designer. In l926 she married John Glessner Lee, a Connecticut industrialist, choosing to marry and raise a family rather than go to college.

PML was president of the League of Women Voters of Farmington, Connecticut, 1938-1942, of the LWV of Connecticut, l942-1949, and of the LWV of the United States for four terms, 1950-1958. She was trustee of the LWV Education Fund, president of the League's Overseas Education Fund, l959-1963, and president of the OEF's Leadership Institute. She served on the Ford Foundation and chaired the Capital Region Planning Agency in Hartford. She was appointed to the Consumer Advisory Council by President Kennedy in l962, and served as its chairman, l963-1967. She also served on the board of Connecticut College for Women and as national consultant for Radcliffe's Women's Archives, (later the Schlesinger Library), 1957-1960. PML received honorary degrees from Cedar Crest College and Rutgers University (l956), from Hillyer College (l957), and from Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.