Collection is open for research.
Gift of Paul C. Pitzer, December 1987.
Dorothy McCullough Lee was Portland, Oregon's first woman mayor. Before entering politics, Lee was a respected lawyer. She served in the Oregon State Legislature in the 1930s. While in Salem, she had supported increased state funding for schools and for retirement pensions. In August 1943, she was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Portland city council, where she also became the Commissioner of Public Utilities. In 1948, she was elected mayor of Portland. As mayor, she was known for her anti-vice campaigns and her advocacy of civil rights.
Dorothy McCullough Lee collection, Mss 2772, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Vertical File: Biography - Lee, Dorothy McCullough, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Photographs: Lee, Dorothy McCullough, Photo File #643-A, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Papers of Dorothy McCullough Lee are held at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection includes biographical sketches; photocopy of Dorothy McCullough Lee's last will and testament, 1972; inventory of Lee's papers at the Schlesinger Library of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and ephemera.
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