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'''Michael Shumway Lee''' (born June 4, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician
The son of U.S. [[Solicitor General of the United States|Solicitor General]] [[Rex E. Lee]] and brother of Utah Supreme Court justice [[Thomas Rex Lee]], Lee began his career as a clerk for the [[U.S. District Court for the District of Utah]] before clerking for [[Samuel Alito]], who was then a judge on the [[Third Circuit Court of Appeals]]. From 2002 to 2005, Lee was an [[assistant U.S. attorney]] for the District of Utah. He joined the administration of Utah governor [[Jon Huntsman Jr.]], serving as the general counsel in the governor's office from 2005 to 2006. Lee again clerked for Alito after he was appointed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].
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Lee's family moved to [[Provo, Utah]], one year later, when his father became the founding dean of [[Brigham Young University]]'s [[J. Reuben Clark Law School]]. While Lee spent about half of his childhood years in [[Utah]], he spent the other half in [[McLean, Virginia]], a suburb of [[Washington, D.C.]] His father served first as the [[Assistant U.S. Attorney General|assistant U.S. attorney general]] for the civil division of the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] from 1975 to 1976, and then as the [[Solicitor General of the United States|solicitor general of the United States]] from 1981 to 1985. Lee is of [[English Americans|English]], [[Swiss Americans|Swiss]], and [[Danish Americans|Danish]] descent.<ref name=General>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020406719.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first=Philip|last=Rucker|title=Sen. Mike Lee: A political insider refashions himself as tea party revolutionary|date=February 5, 2011|access-date=October 2, 2020}}</ref><ref name=Bloom>{{cite news|last=Litvan|first=Laura|date=February 28, 2012|title=Obama's Nominee Battle a One-Man Fight By Freshman Senator Lee|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-28/obama-s-nominee-battle-a-one-man-fight-by-freshman-senator-lee.html|newspaper=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=February 28, 2012}}</ref>
After graduating from [[Timpview High School]] in 1989, Lee attended [[Brigham Young University]]. He
==Legal career==
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