Carl Magee

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Carlton Cole "Carl" Magee was an American lawyer and publisher. He also patented the first parking meter.[1] He was born in Iowa.


Magee founded the Magee's Independent in 1922, which would change its name to the New Mexico State Tribune in 1923 and the current Albuquerque Tribune in 1933. He was important in bringing the Teapot Dome Scandal to the fore.[2] He was the paper's editor until he was transferred to the Oklahoma City News.

Magee switched from Republican to Democrat and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate.

He is best known in journalism today for the E.W. Scripps Company motto, adopted from Dante for the Albuquerque Tribune and which is now carried by all Scripps chain newspapers: “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

Magee died in El Paso in 1944.


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  1. ^ * "70 Years Ago. Tick Tick Tick." Smithsonian. May 2008 page 18.
  2. ^ Crossen, Cynthia. When Parallel Parking Was New and Meters Seemed Un-American. in The Wallstreet Journal. July 30, 2007.