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69th Congress Pictorial Directory, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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MAGEE, James McDevitt, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Evergreen, near Pittsburgh, Pa., April 5, 1877;
attended the common schools;
was graduated from Yale University in 1899 and from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1902;
was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice at Pittsburgh, Pa.;
was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Air Service during the First World War;
promoted to captain and served until January 1919;
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;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926;
chairman, Pennsylvania Securities Commission, Harrisburg, Pa., 1931-1935;
continued the practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pa., until his death there on April 16, 1949;
interment in Calvary Cemetery.
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