Charles Edward Magoon
Charles Edward Magoon was an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and administrator. He is best remembered as a governor of the Panama Canal Zone; he also served as Minister to Panama at the same time. His successes led to his appointment as an occupation governor of Cuba in 1906.
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Charles Edward Magoon was an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and administrator. He is best remembered as a governor of the Panama Canal Zone; he also served as Minister to Panama at the same time. His successes led to his appointment as an occupation governor of Cuba in 1906. He was the subject of several scandals during his career. As a legal advisor working for the United States Department of War, he drafted recommendations and reports that were used by Congress and the executive branch in governing the U.S. new territories following the Spanish–American War. These reports were collected as a published book in 1902, then considered the seminal work on the subject. During his time as a Governor, Magoon worked to put these recommendations into practice. In 1903, he announced that he was retiring as secretary of war. He died in Panama City, Florida, on December 31, 1913. He leaves behind a wife and four children. He also leaves a son and a daughter, both of whom are active members of the Nebraska National Guard. Magoon is buried in Lincoln, Nebraska, in a private cemetery. He had a daughter and a son-in-law who also served in the Nebraska Army National Guard and served as a judge advocate for the National Guard in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He has a daughter who is a lawyer and a step-daughter who worked for the State Department in Washington, D.C. in the 1930s and ’40s. She is now a professor of law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She lives in Omaha and has a son who is also a lawyer. She has two step-children who also work for the state. She also has two grandchildren who live in Nebraska. She died in 2008 and leaves a husband and step-son who are active in the military. She was buried in Omaha, Nebraska. Her husband died in 2009 and she has two children who also live in Omaha. She had a son, Michael, who was a physician and served on the Nebraska Supreme Court until his death in 2010. She leaves a daughter in Nebraska and a grandson, Michael Magoon, who served as the United Nations’ first African-American vice-president. She passed away in 2011 and is survived by her husband and two children. Her last husband, William, died in 2012. She left a daughter with whom she had three children; she had one son and one step-grandchild. She later died in a nursing home; her husband died of lung cancer in 2013. She never had children of her own; she died in her sleep in her husband’s home in Panama. Her son, William Magoon Jr., was a lawyer for the Nebraska State Guard. He later became the judge advocate of thebraska National Guard; he continued to use the title of “Judge’s Judge” throughout the remainder of his career, until he died in 1986. He lived in Lincoln and was buried there in a retirement home. His son, David, was a prominent lawyer in the Omaha area.
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