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This still isn't much of a biography, but it's better than many on here. My main concern is undue weight, as this focuses far too much on aviation. McGee is still fondly remembered by many within the Alaskan aviation community. However, despite his role in the lineage of Alaska Airlines, he is far less significant, as both an Alaskan figure and an aviation figure, as many others in that lineage. To offer some examples: Shell Simmons, Alex Holden, Bob Ellis, Merle "Mudhole" Smith, Marshall Hoppin and William Lavery. There were plenty of others also associated with Alaska Airlines who weren't necessarily aviators, but who were also of far greater significance to Alaska's history (Lawrence Castner and Bob Giersdorf, just to name a couple). Here's is how McGee was remembered in his obituary in Alaska magazine's "End of the Trail" section:

McGEE, L. Mac, 91, died June 13, 1988 in Reno, Nevada. Founder of Alaska Airlines and a gold miner, he came to Alaska in 1920 to pursue adventure. In 1930, he founded McGee Airways which in 1944, after a series of buy outs and mergers, was incorporated as Alaska Airlines. He also operated gold mines throughout Alaska and for the past 20 years, mined in the Manley Hot Springs area. Survived by his wife, Virgie of Reno.

As to the last part, must have been a later marriage, as 1940s-era sources mention a wife named Helen. They also mention that the two ran a chain of liquor stores in Anchorage. The above piece I quote stresses the importance of his role in founding Alaska Airlines. However, unlike the Wikipedia approach of presenting as few dimensions of a subject as possible, it doesn't exclusively focus on that and shows that he did other things as well. The Alaska Airlines article does a better job of showing those other dimensions than this one does. Of course, the fact that substantial work is being done right now to make that article a GA may have something to do with that.RadioKAOS (talk) 23:36, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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