Joshua B. Lee

Joshua B. Lee
Senator Joshua B. Lee (D-OK)
United States Senator from Oklahoma
In office January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1943
Preceded by	Thomas Gore
Succeeded by	Edward H. Moore
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th district
In office January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937
Preceded by	Fletcher B. Swank
Succeeded by	Robert P. Hill
Personal details
Born	Joshua Bryan Lee (1892-01-23)January 23, 1892 Childersburg, Alabama
Died	August 10, 1967(1967-08-10) (aged 75) Norman, Oklahoma
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Oklahoma Baptist University University of Oklahoma Columbia University Cumberland School of Law
Military service
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1917–1918
Unit	One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Thirty-fourth Division

Joshua Bryan Lee (January 23, 1892 – August 10, 1967) was a United States Representative and Senator from Oklahoma.

Born in Childersburg, Alabama, he moved with his parents to Pauls Valley, Oklahoma (which was then Indian Territory), and then to Kiowa County, near Hobart, in 1901. He attended the public schools of Hobart and Rocky, Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee. He was a teacher in the public schools of Rocky from 1911 to 1913 and was a coach of athletics and teacher of public speaking at the Oklahoma Baptist University, 1913–1915; he graduated from the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1917, and received a graduate degree in political science from Columbia University in 1924, and a law degree from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University (Tennessee) in 1925. He was initiated into the Mu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity in 1917.

During the First World War, Joshua Lee served overseas as a private in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Thirty-fourth Division, in 1917 and 1918. From 1919 to 1934, he was head of the public speaking department of the University of Oklahoma, and was also an author and lecturer. "HOW TO HOLD AN AUDIENCE WITHOUT A ROPE" and "THE BATTLE OF COGNAC" were his most noted titles. "THE BATTLE OF COGNAC" was first published in October 1919 by "Harlow Publishing Corporation". It was republished as a hard cover in 1948 by Harlow Publishing Corporation with three more rhymes included. Besides the rhymes there is enough commentary to illuminate the circumstances in which the rhymes were written. The 1948 version was ill-trimmed and the pages were not separated in twenty four instances. It is made up of soldier rhymes, with no effort to make them poems. Josh called them "the jottings of a doughboy."