Education
In 1808 he graduated from the College of William & Mary.
In 1808 he graduated from the College of William & Mary.
He was a half-brother of Confederate General Robert East. Lee. Henry Lee IV served as a speech writer for the statesman John C. Calhoun as well as the presidential candidate Andrew Jackson. President Jackson rewarded him with a consular appointment to Algeria.
The Senate, however, refused the confirmation.
In his remaining seven years of his life, Henry Lee traveled abroad, dying in Paris, France. Anne and Henry had one child, Margaret.
Margaret was born in autumn of 1818, and died at the age of two in a tragic accident. According to at least one version of the story, Elizabeth became pregnant, although there′s no record of the child having survived.
McCarthy family brought suit to remove Lee as trustee of Elizabeth"s inheritance and recovery of the money.
Unbeknownst to the McCarthys, Lee had misappropriated a portion of the trust for upkeep of Stratford Hall Plantation, the Lee family"s ancestral home for six generations. In order to conceal the misappropriation, Lee attempted unsuccessfully to marry Elizabeth off to an unscrupulous suitor. The legal fallout and resulting scandal forced Lee to sell Stratford out of the family.
Elizabeth McCarty lived at Stratford for 50 years, from 1829 until her death in 1879.
Andrew Jackson befriended Lee and began to assist in rehabilitating him in political and social life.