Gale W. McGee

(1915-1992) born in Lincoln, lived in Norfolk and Wayne. Educator, politician, was known as advocate for strong military to resist Communist expansion, supported U.S. foreign aid and involvement in United Nations, pursued liberal domestic issues along with those of concern to his conservative constituents, author of Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 that led to an independent U.S. Postal Service; was later an ambassador to the Organization of American States, where he built support for approval of transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century; previously he was a high school and college teacher in Nebraska, Iowa, and Wyoming, with time off for graduate studies from 1936 to 1958. Consult Current Biography (1961) 281-283 and George Douth, Leaders in Profile: The United States Senate (Sperr & Douth, 1975) 767-775 and New York Times obituary, April 10, 1992, p. B-9 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 5 (Scribner, 200l) 349-350.

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