Richard_"Squire"_Lee
Richard "Squire" Lee
American politician
Richard Lee (1726–1795), known most commonly as "Squire", was a prominent Virginia planter, and American politician, who was active in the American Revolutionary War. He represented Westmoreland County Virginia continuously (but on a part-time basis) in the Virginia General Assembly from 1757 (when the lower house was known as the House of Burgesses, through the five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions until his death in 1795 (when it was known as the Virginia House of Delegates). Complicating matters, he had a cousin also known as Squire Richard Lee, who built Blenheim in Maryland.