John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey (30 April 1908 – 26 October 1953), usually cited as J. C. C. McKinsey, was an American mathematician known for his work on game theory and mathematical logic,[2] particularly, modal logic.
[2][5] He also taught at Montana State College, and in Nevada, then Oklahoma, and in 1947 he went "to a research group at Douglas Aircraft Corporation" that later became the RAND Corporation.[1]: p.
The FBI considered him a security risk because he was a homosexual, in spite of the fact that he was an open homosexual who had been in a committed relationship for years.
"[6] From 1951 he taught at Stanford University, where he was later appointed a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy,[2] where he worked with Patrick Suppes on the axiomatic foundations of classical mechanics.[1]: p.
232 He committed suicide[6] at his home in Palo Alto in 1953.