Carlton Cole "Carl" Magee was an American lawyer

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 and publisher. He also patented the first parking meter

Parking meter

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. He was born in Iowa

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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

Albuquerque Tribune

The Albuquerque Tribune was an afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1922 by Carlton Cole Magee as Magee's Independent. It was published in the afternoon and evening Monday through Saturday....

in 1933. The Tribune became defunct in 2008. Magee was important in bringing the Teapot Dome Scandal

Teapot Dome scandal

The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States in 1922–23, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low...

 to the fore. He was the paper's editor until he was transferred to the Oklahoma City News.

Magee switched from Republican

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 to Democrat

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 and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate

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He is best known in journalism today for the E.W. Scripps Company motto, adopted from Dante

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 for the Albuquerque Tribune and which is now carried by all Scripps chain newspapers: “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

Magee died in El Paso

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in 1944.

Sources

• http://www.ionet.net/~luttrell/history.html
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okoklaho/obit/magee_carl_c.htm
• http://www.inc.com/magazine/20021001/24702.html