Patrick D'Arcy McGee (March 5, 1916 – May 30, 1970) was a Republican member of the California State Assembly for the 64th district from 1950 to 1957 and from 1966 until his death in 1970.
He attended Notre Dame University until he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 and later the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He flew many bombing missions over Dresden and other German cities, and won the DFC for bringing his B17 to a safe landing in a field in Dover, GB with a flaming hole in the undercarriage and his co-pilot dead.
He was reelected in the 64th Assembly District in 1966 and 1968,[1] McGee gave up his Assembly position to run in the conservatively oriented Los Angeles City Council District 3 in the West San Fernando Valley, which included Woodland Hills, Encino, Tarzana, Northridge, Reseda and Canoga Park.
As an Assembly member, McGee was active in a bid to obtain legislation to establish a rapid transit authority in the Los Angeles area and was also in "the thick of the fight to get Feather River water" for Southern California.
McGee was one of the three council members—Harold A. Henry and John C. Holland being the others—who voted in 1958 against a proposal to turn Chavez Ravine over to the Brooklyn Dodgers for use as a baseball stadium.