Elijah Milton McGee (May 10, 1819 – February 11, 1873) was a Democratic Kansas City Mayor in 1870 and a developer whose family name is applied to many streets in Kansas City.

[1] His family moved to Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri, and then to Jackson County, Missouri, where they bought a half section of land of what is now Downtown Kansas City.

He made a fortune in the California Gold Rush and used the money to build the Southern House hotel at 16th and Grand.

The hotel would become a hotbed of southern sympathizers in the Bleeding Kansas war.

[3] McGee became mayor of Kansas city from 1870 to 1871, and died on February 11, 1873.