James McDevitt Magee

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James McDevitt Magee (April 5, 1877–April 16, 1949) was a aviator and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

James M. Magee was born in Evergreen, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). He graduated from Yale University in 1899 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 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 in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by at-large: William J. Burke, Thomas S. Crago, Joseph McLaughlin, Anderson H. Walters

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 35th congressional district 1923 - 1927

Succeeded by Harry A. Estep