Carl Magee Carl Magee Carlton Cole "Carl" Magee (January 1872 – February 1946) was an American lawyer and publisher. He also patented the first parking meter which was installed for use. He was born in Iowa. Magee graduated from Upper Iowa University in 1896. Magee founded the "Magee's Independent" in 1922, which would change its name to the "New Mexico State Tribune" in 1923 and to the "Albuquerque Tribune" in 1933. The Tribune became defunct in 2008. Magee was important in bringing the Teapot Dome Scandal to the fore. When a judge Magee had once accused of corruption knocked him down in
William Kirkpatrick Magee the Artist as a Young Man", but turned it down with the comment “I cannot print what I can't understand.” In 1904, thanks to the influence of Edward Dowden, Magee was appointed as a librarian at the National Library of Ireland. In 1905, "Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton, selected by William Butler Yeats" became one of the small number of books published by the Yeats family's Dun Emer Press. In 1920, Magee married Marie Louise O'Leary, a work colleague. They retired from the National Library in 1921, Magee retiring as head librarian, and in that year, shortly before