Rex E. Lee
Rex E. Lee (
February 27,
1935 -
March 11,
1996) from
St. Johns, Arizona was a revered
Constitutional lawyer, a
Latter-day Saint (LDS; see also
Mormon), an
alumnus and 10th president of
Brigham Young University from
July 1,
1989 through
December 31,
1995, clerked for former
United States Supreme Court Justice Byron White and served as the
United States Solicitor General under the
Reagan Admnistration. Even as he fought
cancer in his last year as president of BYU, he argued more cases (59) in his life before the Supreme Court than any other lawyer. He is also a direct descendant of
John D. Lee.
- Rex E. Lee, A Lawyer Looks at the Constitution; Brigham Young University Press; ISBN 0-8425-1904-1 (Softcover, September 1981)
- Rex E. Lee, What Do Mormons Believe; Deseret Books; ISBN 0-8757-9639-7 (Hardcover, November 1992)
External Links
- A Concurrent Resolution on the Death of Rex E. Lee by the Arizona Legislature:
- http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/42leg/2r/laws/scr1018.htm
- Supreme Court Justices Pay Tribute to the Late Rex E. Lee:
- http://magazine.byu.edu/bym/1996/96november/lee.html
- Loving Rex Lee, A Personal Remembrance:
- http://magazine.byu.edu/bym/1996/96march/smemoriam.html