Background
Lee, William Little was born on February 8, 1821 in Sandy Hill, New York, United States. Son of Stephen and Mary (Little) Lee.
Lee, William Little was born on February 8, 1821 in Sandy Hill, New York, United States. Son of Stephen and Mary (Little) Lee.
Graduate Norwich University, 1842. Postgraduate Harvard Law School.
Judge for Island of Oahu, Hawaii. Chief justice Hawaii, 1847, member privy council, 1847. Drafted penal code (basis of Hawaiian criminal laws today), 1850.
Member Hawaii House of Representatives, 1851, speaker.
Chief justice of what is now Supreme Court of the Hawaii, 1852. Minister to the United States, 1855.
Negotiated reciprocity treaty with United States secretary of state.
Member Hawaii House of Representatives, 1851, speaker.
Married Catherine East. Newton, 1849.