He served as the head football coach at Geneva Collegein Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1911, compiling a record of 12–24–7.
McKean served one term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives after being elected in 1910.
He was the Western Pennsylvania prohibition administrator during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and later was a municipal judge in Orlando, Florida.
McKean was the sixth head football coach at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, serving for five seasons, from 1907 to 1911 and compiling a record of 10–24–7.
[6] McKean died on January 7, 1957, at Citizens General Hospital in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.