Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1912-1993

Robert Edward Lee (1912-1993) was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was an auditor with the American Bond and Mortgage Company Bondholders Protective Committee from 1935 to 1938, and a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation performing investigative work in Washington, D.C., Newark, New Jersey, New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois from 1938 to 1941. He served as Chief Clerk, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Administrative Assistant to J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, D.C., from 1941 to 1946. Lee worked as the Director of Surveys and Investigations for the House Appropriations Committee from 1946 to 1953 and served as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 1953 to 1981. In 1971, he served as Vice-chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Space Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1973 served as Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Telephone and Telegraph Conference also in Geneva, and in 1974 served as Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the World Administrative Radio Conference for Maritime. In 1977, he served as Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the World Administrative Radio Conference for Broadcast Satellites in Geneva. Lee was a delegate to the International Conference on Satellite Communication, Dublin, Ireland, in 1979, and was Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Inter-American Telecommunication Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1980. In 1983, he was a delegate to the Geneva World Administrative Conference on Broadcast Satellites, and worked as a consultant on telecommunications for the law firm of Fletcher, Heald, and Hildreth throughout the 1980s. Lee was first married to Wilma "Rex" Rector in July 1936. Rector died in 1972. He married his second wife, Rose Anne Bente on September 27, 1974. Lee died on April 15, 1993 in Arlington, Virginia.