Joseph McGhee

Joseph McGhee

Joseph McGhee (born October 6, 1872 in Coalton , Ohio , † November 27, 1951 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party . He was Attorney General of Ohio from 1917 to 1919 .

Career

Joseph McGhee attended public schools. He graduated from National Normal University in Lebanon, Ohio, in 1895 . Then he taught at a school. He studied law with Judge James Tripp in Jackson, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in Columbus in 1898 and then began practicing in Jackson. In 1902 he married Margaret Becker († 1940) from Logan (Ohio).

After his Democratic Party colleague and Attorney from Jackson County Timothy Sylvester Hogan was elected Attorney General of Ohio in 1911, he named McGhee his first deputy. McGhee held the post until October 1913 when Hogan appointed him Advisory Counsel to the State Utilities Commission , where he served until January 11, 1915.

Immediately after his resignation from the Utilities Commission, he founded a law practice ( McGhee, Davis & Boulger ) in Columbus with Frank Davis Jr. and James I. Boulger . In 1916 he won the election to Attorney General and took office on January 8, 1917. The first part of his term of office was overshadowed by the First World War .

McGhee died in 1951 at his Columbus home after a two year illness. At the time of his death he was 79 years old.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} W.S. Pealer and John R. Cassidy: Manual of Legislative Practice in the ... General Assembly ... , Westbote Company, 1918, p. 63
2. ^ Ohio Legislative History: 1909-1912 , Volume 1, FJ Heer Printing, 1912, pp. 178f
3. ^ Former State Official Dies, Athens Messenger, Nov. 30, 1951