Background
Magee, James M. was born on April 5, 1877 in Evergreen, Pittsburgh. Son of Frederick M. and Hannah Mary (Gillespie) Magee.
United States representative lawyer politician
Magee, James M. was born on April 5, 1877 in Evergreen, Pittsburgh. Son of Frederick M. and Hannah Mary (Gillespie) Magee.
He graduated from Yale University in 1899, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1902.
He was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service during the First 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 he was attached to the executive office of the Department of Military Aeronautics. Magee was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses.
He was an 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 in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Clubs: Law.
Married second, Mary L. Gittings. Children (by former marriage): Mary J., Edward J.