Carlos Bee
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Carlos Bee (July 8, 1867 - April 20, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Texas, great-grandson of Thomas Bee.
Born in Saltillo, Mexico, where his parents had moved after the collapse of the Confederacy, Bee returned with his parents to San Antonio, Texas, in 1874. He attended the public schools and the Agricultural and Mechanical College. He studied law while working as a railway mail clerk. He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in San Antonio, Texas. United States commissioner for the western district of Texas in 1893. He served as district attorney of the thirty-seventh judicial district 1898-1905. He served as chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1904. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904 and 1908. He served as a member of the city school board of San Antonio 1906-1908. He served as president of the county school board of Bexar County, Texas from 1912 to 1914. He served as member of the State senate 1915-1919.
Bee was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He engaged in the practice of law in San Antonio, Texas, until his death there on April 20, 1932. He was interred in the Confederate Cemetery.
