Percy Mercer Lee

Background

LEE, Percy Mercer was born on November 14, 1892 in Ludlow. Scott Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of T. H. and Alethia (Denson) Lee.

Education

AB, Mississippi College, 1911; studied law under tutors and Judge A. H. Whitfield, 1915.

Career

Teacher, Ridgeland School, near Jackson, 1916-1918; practiced with, Huff & Lee, Forest, 1920-1927; private practice, 1929-1938; special assistant to attorney general, State of Mississippi, 1918-1919; attorney, City of Forest, Town of Morton, and supervisors of Scott County, Mississippi, 1921-1931; district attorney, 8th District, 1929-1938; circuit judge, 8th District, 1939-1950; associate justice, Mississippi Supreme Court, Jackson, 1950-1961; presiding justice, Mississippi Supreme Court, Jackson, 1961-1963; chief justice, Mississippi Supreme Court, Jackson, 1964-1965.

Achievements

• Percy Mercer Lee has been listed as a reputable judge by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Mayor City of Forest, 1922-1926. President of the board of trustees Forest Separate School District, 1945-1948. Member Mississippi State Bar Association, Masons (32 degree, past grand master Mississippi 1937), K.T., Shriners, Eastern Star (past worthy patron), Woodman.

Connections

Married Hattie Mae Nutt, December 27, 1912 (deceased November 1937). Children: Percy M., Roy Noble, Annie Laurie (Mistress W. J. James), James Walter, Robert Edward, Charles David. Married Claudia Stewart, December 25, 1938.

Children: Elizabeth Jane, James Walter.

Father:

Thomas Hugh Lee

Mother:

Alethia Jane (Denson) Lee

Spouse:

Hattie Mae Nutt

Spouse:

Claudia Stewart

child:

Robert Edward Lee

child:

James Walter Lee

child:

Roy Noble Lee

child:

Percy M. Lee

child:

Annie Laurie Lee (Mistress W. J. James)

child:

Elizabeth Jane Lee

child:

Charles David Lee