Edward McGehee (November 8, 1786 – October 1, 1880) was an American judge and major planter in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

In the 1830s, McGehee was among a group of major planters who founded the Mississippi Colonization Society to transport free people of color from the state to West Africa.

[1] A wealthy cotton planter, he owned the Bowling Green Plantation near Woodville in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

[3][5][8] As early as the 1830s, together with other planters Isaac Ross (1760–1838), Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), John Ker (1789–1850), and educator/minister Jeremiah Chamberlain (1794–1851), McGehee co-founded the Mississippi Colonization Society, whose goal was to send freedmen and free people of color to Liberia in West Africa.

[9][10] The organization was modeled after the American Colonization Society, but it focused on freedmen from Mississippi, where slaves outnumbered whites by a three-to-one ratio.