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About Luke Lea
Luke Lea was an American attorney, politician and newspaper publisher. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. Lea was the longtime publisher of The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, and a United States Army veteran of World War I. In 1919 he led an unauthorized and unsuccessful attempt to kidnap the recently exiled German Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Everything about Luke Lea →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, businessperson, editor
- Position held
- United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 12, 1879
- Died
- November 18, 1945