page_title: Robert E. Lee (FCC)
section_title: FCC commissioner
hierarchical_section_title: Robert E. Lee (FCC) / Career / FCC commissioner
caption_attribution_description: English: President Ronald Reagan Shaking Hands with Donald Trump at a Reception for Members of The "Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies" Foundation in The Blue Room, 11/3/1987
context_page_description: Robert E. Lee was a 20th-century American government official, best known as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 1953 to 1981, including Interim FCC Chairman and Chairman.
context_section_description: In 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Lee commission to the new Federal Communications Commission, where he served for nearly 28 years to 1981.  Lee was a personal friend of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and so faced some opposition in the American press when Eisenhower appointed him FCC commissioner.  Subsequent presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan re-appointed him.  In his final year, he served briefly as Interim Chairman (February 5, 1981 – April 12, 1981) and  Chairman (April 13, 1981 – May 18, 1981).
  While in office, he served as vice chairman or chairman on a number of U.S. delegations to Geneva:  Space Conference (1971), Telephone and Telegraph Conference (1973), World Administrative Radio Conference (1974), World Administrative Radio Conference for Broadcast Satellites (1977).  In October 1979, he was a U.S. delegate to an International Conference on Satellite Communication in Dublin, Ireland.  In March 1980, he chaired a U.S. delegation, Inter-American Telecommunication Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  In the 1980s, Lee served as consultant on telecommunications for law firm of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, which specialized in telecommunications. In 1983, he was a delegate to the Geneva World Administrative Conference on Broadcast Satellites.
caption: Ronald Reagan (here with Donald Trump in 1987) was the last president to re-appoint Lee to the FCC
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