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
Augustus Magee (now Trinidad, Texas) on the Trinity River, in mid-September. Here, Magee became ill. Some sources attribute this to consumption or malaria, but the papers of Mirabeau Lamar preserve the Texan rumor that Magee was poisoned by his men, many of whom were among those he had previously mistreated during his former command. Through a long illness, he remained in nominal military command before dying while besieged at the Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía in what is now Goliad, Texas. He was succeeded as commander of the expedition by Samuel Kemper. Augustus Magee Augustus William Magee (also McGee;