Politics and Government
- William Lee I (died 1425), Member of Parliament (MP) for Shropshire
- William Lee II (died c. 1442), MP for Staffordshire and Newcastle-under-Lyme
- William Lee (Australian politician) (1794–1870), New South Wales politician
- William Lee (diplomat) (1739–1795), American diplomat
- William Lee (mayor) (1822–1906), mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1870–1872
- William Lee (1545–1637), five times mayor of Abingdon: his family tree of 197 descendants hangs in St Helen's Church, Abingdon
- William Lee (1801–1881), British Member of Parliament for Maidstone, 1853–1857 and 1859–1870
- William Lee (1726-1778), British Member of Parliament for Appleby, 1754–1756
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (1837–1891), Confederate Army general and US congressman
- William Little Lee (1821–1857), first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Kingdom of Hawaii
- William Swain Lee (born 1935), American lawyer and politician
- William E. Lee (1852–1920), Minnesota politician
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