[1][2] After he left Harvard, McGehee furthered his legal education by reading for the law under the tutelage of North Carolina Judge W.H.
Battle, and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1844.
[1] On September 25, 1854, McGehee married Sally Polk Badger, daughter of U.S.
Senator George Edmund Badger, at Christ Church Raleigh, North Carolina.
[2] McGehee died on March 31, 1895, at age seventy-three at his home in Raleigh, North Carolina, after a long illness.