Gale W. McGee
| Gale W. McGee | |
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United States Senator from Wyoming |
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In office January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Frank A. Barrett |
| Succeeded by | Malcolm Wallop |
| 9th United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States | |
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In office March 30, 1977 – July 1, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | William S. Mailliard |
| Succeeded by | J. William Middendorf |
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Gale William McGee March 17, 1915 Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Died | April 9, 1992 (aged 77) Washington, D.C. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Loraine Baker McGee (died March 21, 2006) |
Gale William McGee (March 17, 1915 – April 9, 1992) was a United States Senator of the Democratic Party, and United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). He represented Wyoming in the United States Senate from 1959 until 1977.
McGee was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 17, 1915. He attended public schools, and had planned to study law in college, but was forced by the Great Depression to attend the State Teachers College in Wayne, Nebraska, instead. He graduated from the Teachers College in 1936, and worked as a high school teacher while studying for a master's degree in history at the University of Colorado. He continued as a college instructor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Iowa State College, and Notre Dame. In 1946 McGee received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago.
Shortly after he received his Ph.D, McGee accepted a position as a professor of American history at the University of Wyoming. Soon after, he founded and served as chair of the University's Institute of International Affairs, which brought national dignitaries every summer through a Carnegie Foundation grant. Twenty-one teachers from Wyoming high schools were selected each summer to participate. For the next 12 years, the Institute brought international foreign policy thinkers such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Hans Morganthau, and Henry Kissinger.
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