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FLAVEL McGEE
Originally published in 1900 |
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FLAVEL McGEE was born April 6, 1844, in Frelinghuysen Township,
Warren County, N. J. He prepared for college at Newton Collegiate Institute, Newton, N. J., and Blair Presbyterial Academy, Blairstown, N. J.,
and was graduated from Princeton College in June, 1865. Three years
later he received the degree of A.M. He studied law in Belvidere, and was
admitted to the bar of New Jersey in June, 1868. He began practice in
Jersey City, forming a partnership with William Muirheid, under the firm
name of Muirheid & McGee. The degree of counselor-at-law was conferred upon him at the June term of the Supreme Court, 1871, the first
term possible under the rules. At the same term that he was admitted
lie argued two cases in the Supreme Court and one in the Court of Errors
and Appeals. Two of these afterward became leading cases. One was
that of the International Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Haight,
in which it was held for the first time in New Jersey that in estimating
the assets of a corporation for taxation United States securities and mortgages not liable to taxation must be deducted. The other was the case
of Ransom ads. Ruckman, wherein the Court of Errors settled the law on
the doctrine of arbitration. Within the first year after his license as a
counselor he was employed in important railroad litigation, and since
that time has at all times been extensively employed by corporations,
notably railroad, banking, and insurance corporations. He was one of
the earliest members of the New Jersey bar to engage in the practice of
admiralty.
In the year 1876 the late Governor Bedle was added to the firm, which was known as Bedle, Muirheid & McGee until 1888, when Mr. Joseph D. Bedle, Jr., was added to the firm under the style of Bedle, Muirheid, McGee Bedle, Jr. This continued until the death of Mr. Muirheid in 1892, when the firm became Bedle, McGee & Bedle. On the death of ex-Governor Bedle in October, 1894, the firm was changed to McGee, Bedle & Bedle, Mr. Thomas F. Bedle being added. The latter retired from the firm in 1899, when the firm name was changed to McGee & Bedle. Recently Robert L. Lawrence has been added, the firm name remaining unchanged. Upon the death of the late Mr. Justice Bradley, Mr. McGee was put forward by the bar of New Jersey for the position of Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and upon the death of the late Chief Justice Beasley his name was urged for the position of Chief Justice of the State. He holds commissions as Master in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner, and Advisory Master of the Court of Chancery. He is also a counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States. He has always been a Republican, and in important elections has frequently taken the stump. In the contest for the United States Senatorship, in which the late Governor Abbett was defeated by Rufus Blodgett, Mr. McGee took an active part with his then partner, Governor Bedle, in opposition to Mr. Abbett's candidacy. In the canvass, which resulted in the nomination of the Hon. John W. Griggs for Governor of New Jersey, Mr. McGee was in the beginning one of the few Griggs men in Hudson County, but he was able to go into the convention with forty-one votes from Hudson County unalterably pledged to Griggs, which resulted in the casting of the whole vote of Hudson County for Griggs, thus securing his nomination. On the death of the late Charles H. Winfield, Governor Griggs offered to Mr. McGee the position of Prosecutor of the Pleas of the County of Hudson, and earnestly urged its acceptance. The latter declined, however. He has been offered by his party the nomination for almost every important office within the gift of the party in Hudson County, all of which he has declined. He is Vice-President of the Republican County Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. He is a member of the Union League Club of Hudson County, the Carteret and Palma Clubs of Jersey City, the Union League Club of New York, the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Sons of the American Revolution of New Jersey. He was au Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Jersey City up to the time of its consolidation with the First Presbyterian Church of Bergen, since which time he has been an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City. Mr. McGee married Julia F. Randolph, daughter of the late Judge Bennington F. Randolph and Eliza Forman, of Jersey City, and a grand-daughter of Francis C. F. and Phebe H. (Crane) Randolph, of Belvidere, and John B. and Hope Forman, of Freehold, N. J.
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