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LEE SLATER. United States Senator from North Carolina.
Born 1854, and graduated from Trinity College, ge, N. C., in 1874. For a few years, while studying law, he was private secretary to the governor of the state, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883 and between that date and 1900 served four terms. In 1900 he was president of the Democratic State Convention and in He was re-elected in 1909 and 1915. 1903 United States Senator.