Dan R. McGehee

Daniel Rayford McGehee (September 10, 1883 – February 9, 1962) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1935 to 1947.

Born in Little Springs, Mississippi, McGehee attended the public schools.

He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice at Meadville, Mississippi.

In his last term as a Congressman McGehee would become one of the first Congressional critics of the mid-century Supreme Court when he denounced the 1946 decision Morgan v. Virginia, which declared racial segregation on interstate transport unconstitutional.

McGehee viewed the Justices as mediocre lawyers with little understanding of the Constitution, especially of states rights, and went so far as to argue that every Justice supporting Morgan needed to be impeached.