Carlos Bee was an attorney and politician, serving as US Representative from Texas.
13 Facts About Carlos Bee
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Carlos Bee was a son of Hamilton P Bee and a great-grandson of Thomas Bee, a politician and judge in South Carolina in the Revolutionary and Federal periods.
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Carlos Bee was born in 1867 in Saltillo, Mexico, where his parents Hamilton Prioleau Bee and Mildred Tarver Bee had moved from San Antonio after the collapse of the Confederacy and the end of the American Civil War.
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Carlos Bee's father had been a general in the Confederate Army.
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In 1874, when Bee was about seven years old, the family returned to San Antonio.
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Carlos Bee attended the public schools and the Agricultural and Mechanical College.
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Carlos Bee studied law while working as a railway mail clerk.
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Carlos Bee joined the Democratic Party and was appointed as United States commissioner for the western district of Texas in 1893.
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On January 16,1895, Carlos Bee married Mary Kyle Burleson, who was the daughter of Emma and Edward Burleson.
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Carlos Bee's wife was one of the founders of the Pan-American Round Tables.
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Carlos Bee served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904 and 1908, and was elected as chairman in 1904.
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Carlos Bee was appointed as president of the county school board of Bexar County, Texas from 1912 to 1914.
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Carlos Bee worked there until his death there on April 20,1932.