Gideon Lee (1778-1841)
Leather Merchant, U.S. Congressman & Mayor of New York City
He learned the shoemaking and tanning trades and lived in Worthington, Massachusetts, before moving to New York City and, later, to Georgia. He returned to New York in 1807, where he continued to work in the leather industry. While living in New York City, he served in the State Assembly (1822-1823), on the city's Board of Aldermen (1828-1830), as the city's Mayor (1833), and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1835-1837). Lee retired in 1836 and moved to Geneva, New York, where he died on August 21, 1841. He was married twice and had seven children.
