Rowan County NcArchives Biographies.....Overman, Lee Slater 
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Source: Who's Who in America
Author: John W. Leonard

Overman, Lee Slater
lawyer, US senator;
b. Salisbury, NC, Jan. 3, 1854;
s. William and Mary E. O.;
grad. Trinity Coll., NC, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1876;
m. Oct. 31, 1878, Mary, d. Senator A.S. Merrimon.
Taught sch., 1875-6;
pvt. sec. to Gov. Vance, 1877-8, to Gov. Jarvis, 1879;
admitted to bar, 1878;
Mem. NC legislature, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1893, 1900 (speaker 1893).
Pres. NC R.R., 1894;
now pres. Salisbury Savings Bank;
trustee State Univ.
candidate for US senator, 1895;
pres. Dem. State conv., 1900;
presidental elector, 1900;
US senator, 1903-9;
Democrat.
Home: Salisbury, NC

Additional Comments:
Source:
Who's Who in America
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States.
Volume 3
1903-1905
Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis
Edited by John W. Leonard
Chicago
A.N. Marquis & Company
Publishers
1903

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