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Charles Edward Magoon was born on December 5, 1861, on a farm in Steele County, Minnesota. He was the son of Henry C. and Mehitable W. (Clement) Magoon.
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Charles Edward Magoon was born on December 5, 1861, on a farm in Steele County, Minnesota. He was the son of Henry C. and Mehitable W. (Clement) Magoon.
After the family had moved to a homestead in Platte County, Nebraska, Magoon attended the preparatory department 1876-78 and for one year the college of arts of the University of Nebraska. He studied law in the offices of Mason & Wheeler in Lincoln.
Magoon became a member of the law firm of Wheedon & Magoon, practising law in Lincoln from 1882 to 1899. During this period of his life, he became interested in military affairs and served as major and judge-advocate, Nebraska National Guard. He also compiled and published a treatise of considerable local value entitled The Municipal Code of Lincoln (1889).
In the year 1899, at the instance of Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn, Magoon became law-officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, serving in that capacity until 1904 and specializing in matters growing out of the acquisition by the United States of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
As such, he prepared and submitted to the Secretary of War, an exhaustive study, Report on the Legal Status of the Territory. Acquired by the United States During the War with Spain. He also rendered many important interpretations of United States law affecting the country's new possessions, which were ultimately assembled and published under the title, The Law of Civil Government in Territory Subject to Military Occupation (1902).
In a prefatory introduction to this work, Secretary Elihu Root stated that it was of such value to him in deciding important War Department problems affecting insular possessions, that he ordered the reports printed as a public document for the use of those concerned with the government of the Philippine Islands.
Magoon served as general counsel of the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1904-05, and as a member of the Commission, 1905-06. From May 25, 1905, until October 12, 1906, he served as governor of the Canal Zone and for most of this period also acted as United States envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Republic of Panama.
From October 12, 1906, until January 28, 1909, he served as provisional governor of Cuba during a most important period in the Island's recrudescence, in which his administration of affairs was confronted with the difficult problems concerning the maintenance of order, the development of commercial prosperity, and the inauguration of a sound financial system. Not the least of his far-reaching reforms in Cuba was the introduction of adequate sanitary measures throughout the Island and the almost complete elimination of the scourge of yellow fever.
On February 19, 1904, Magoon delivered before the Patria Club of New York City an important address, printed under the title What Followed the Flag in the Philippines (1904), dealing in a masterly way with policies governing United States sovereignty over occupied territory, the inauguration in the Philippines of a government of law in which the Filipino people were permitted to exercise certain privileges of citizenship, and the insistence upon a policy of complete religious freedom and tolerance in newly acquired territory.
After his retirement he made his home in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Washington, D. C. , passing away suddenly in the latter city after an operation for appendicitis, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.
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Of Magoon's administration during this period, Secretary Taft wrote to President Roosevelt, Janary 14, 1908: "Governor Magoon has conducted matters in a most clear-headed and tactful way. He has successfully handled numerous economic questions. He has had labor troubles which through his conciliatory but impartial attitude have been brought to an end".
Magoon never married.
