H. Rex Lee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1910
Place of Birth: Rigby, Idaho, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jul-2001
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About H. Rex Lee
- Hyrum Rex Lee (April 8, 1910 – July 26, 2001) was an American government employee and diplomat who was the last non-elected Governor of American Samoa.
- Lee served as governor from 1961 to 1967, and again briefly from 1977 to 1978.
- Governor Lee's administration from 1961-67 saw the establishment of schools, a new airport, roads, Rainmaker Hotel, an educational television system, new harbor facilities, and a fisheries cannery.
- Tourism boomed and there was an increasing acceptance of Western institutions, lifestyles, and ideas.
- Many residents relocated to California and Hawai'i or joined the U.S.
- Armed Forces.Born in Rigby, Idaho, Lee studied agricultural science before working as an economist with the Resettlement Administration.
- He was then employed by the War Relocation Authority and became assistant chief of the Office of Territories in 1946, until 1950.
- That year he was appointed as associate (later becoming deputy) commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where he was noted for his skills as a congressional liaison.
- In 1961, he was appointed as Governor of American Samoa as part of the incoming Kennedy administration, serving until 1967. Lee was seen as a successful administrator by both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
- Following his service in American Samoa, he was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission, where he promoted educational television.
- He retired in 1973, continuing to promote educational television, but served another term as Governor of American Samoa until the first-ever elected governor assumed office in January 1978.
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