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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Andy Lee |
| Address | 1300 Southwest 14th Street
Bentonville, Arkansas 72712, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://voteandylee.com/ |
| Born |
April 08, 1946 |
| Died |
Still Living
(79 years) |
| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Modifed | DFWDem
May 04, 2004 10:19am |
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| Info | Lee entered politics as a Bentonville City Council member in the mid-1980s. As Benton County sheriff from 1989-2002, he acquired a reputation for, among other things, running a jail without televisions, hot meals or tobacco; posting his own version of the Ten Commandments in the jail before a federal judge made him take it down; and filing a defamation suit against political foes who had filed a series of failed lawsuits and grand jury petitions against him.
He said Wednesday that he built up the sheriff’s office from a "hole in the ground" in 1988 into the multimillion-dollar operation it is now. His tenure included the construction of a state-ofthe-art county jail.
He enjoys his reputation as a tough lawman and said if he runs for Senate he’ll campaign as "Sheriff Andy Lee," although he knows he can’t have his name printed on the ballot that way.
Lee didn’t run for re-election last year, in part because he hoped to be chosen for a U.S. marshal’s job. He was one of three nominees put forward by then-U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson in 2001, but President Bush didn’t pick Lee for the job.
Since he left the sheriff’s office, Lee has been building houses for a living. He recently incorporated his home-building operation called Sheriff Lee’s Construction LLC.
He collects two public pensions — a disability pension from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D. C., and state retirement from the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System for his years as sheriff.
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