Later Career
After Magee left Nanking, Magee served as curate at Church of the Presidents St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square (Washington, D.C.) in Washington, D.C. While there he was one of the Episcopal priests who officiated at the funeral of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. Magee also served as chaplain to President Harry S. Truman.
Before his death in 1953 he also served as the Episcopal chaplain at Yale University.
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