Benjamin Lee (1774 - December 27, 1828) was an American military leader and political figure. He was born in Robeson County, North Carolina in 1774 to Jesse Lee Sr., a soldier who served in the North Carolina State Militia during the American Revolution. In 1802 and 1803, Benjamin Lee served as the representative of Robeson County in the lower House of the North Carolina General Assembly and from 1804 to 1810 he was the senator for Robeson County.
Life
In 1807 he was commissioned as the Brigadier General of the 14th Brigade of the North Carolina State Militia, a post he still held as late as 1812. In 1816, he had the sad task to settle the estate of his father, who died in August of that year.
In appears, with his family living in Marion County, Mississippi, that he moved to be with them. In 1818, Benjamin Lee served as a Justice of the Marion County Orphans Court and from 1819 to 1820 he served as the Chief Justice.
In 1820, Lee and seven other men on February 10 opened Columbia’s first school, “Columbian Academy,” of which they were the incorporators and trustees. One year later, the state of Mississippi made the first effort to fund education. Also in January 1821, a November session of the General Assembly was planned to be held in Columbia.
Benjamin Lee is a professor of anthropology and philosophy at The New School, where he also served as provost from 2006 until 2008. Lee's primary academic interests include contemporary China; the cultural dimensions of globalization, particularly the effects of global financial flows; and modern theories of language.
Lee graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in psychology and later attended the University of Chicago, where he received an MA in human development and a PhD in anthropology.
Selected publications
From Primitives to Derivatives (coauthor, 2004)
Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk (coauthor, 2004)
"The Subjects of Circulation," in U. Hedetoft and M. Hjort (Eds.)
The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity (2002)
"Cultures of Circulation: The Imaginations of Modernity," Public Culture (coauthor, 2002)
"Peoples and Publics," Public Culture (1998)
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity (1997)
"Critical Internationalism," Public Culture (1995)
Benjamin Lee (5 November 1825 – 15 July 1917) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born at Ampthill in Bedfordshire to Benjamin Lee and Lucy Ann Poulton. His family migrated to Sydney in 1829, and Lee was educated at The King's School, Parramatta. He assisted his father on the family properties and in 1857 established himself as a draper at Maitland. On 21 July 1856 he married Sarah Amelia Stephens, with whom he had nine children. From 1861 to 1874 he was chairman of the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company, and he was also a squatter and a police magistrate at Bathurst. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Maitland, serving until his resignation in 1874. In 1875 he was a local mining warden, and in 1881 a coroner. In 1890 he was a stipendiary magistrate. Lee died at Annandale in 1917.
Vincent Cassel in IrréversiblePhotograph...Benjamin Lee ... I generally find violence in movies to be a goofy good time for the fact of its fakery, the gravity of the gristle onscreen undermined by my knowledge of the messy fun involved in its staging ... .
“Section 230 enables smaller platforms that don’t have the litigation budget of Facebook or Google to compete,” said Benjamin Lee, Reddit’s general counsel, in an interview.
“Section 230 enables smaller platforms that don’t have the litigation budget of Facebook or Google to compete,” said Benjamin Lee, Reddit’s general counsel, in an interview ... 230 protections, Lee said.
PhoenixTours general manager BenjaminPien (卞傑民) said the inbound and outbound tour markets would probably recover to 50 to 60 percent of pre-pandemic levels in the fourth quarter of this year.
Fort Madison Daily Democrat
25 Oct 2024
Fort Madison Daily Democrat
25 Oct 2024