- James McDevitt Magee
James McDevitt Magee (
April 5 ,1877 –April 16 ,1949 ) was anaviator and a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .James M. Magee was born in
Evergreen, Pennsylvania (nearPittsburgh, Pennsylvania ). He graduated fromYale University in 1899 and from the law department of theUniversity of Pennsylvania atPhiladelphia in 1902. He was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in theUnited States Army Air Service during theFirst World War . He was promoted to captain and served until January 1919. He was later commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Reserve. During his entire period of service was attached to the executive office of the Department of Military Aeronautics.Magee elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses. He was unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926. He served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Securities Commission in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , from 1931 to 1935. He continued the practice of law in Pittsburgh until his death there. Magee was interred inCalvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .Magee was brother of
John Magee (missionary) , and uncle toJohn Gillespie Magee, Jr. , author of the poem "High Flight."References
*CongBio|M000046 Retrieved on
2008-02-10
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html The Political Graveyard]
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