Theophilus John McKee (September 29, 1879 — August 4, 1948) was an African-American attorney in the prominent Syphax family.
His maternal grandfather was Colonel John McKee, an African-American property speculator and Civil War veteran.
At the age of 22, in 1902, he decided to pass as white in order to evade Jim Crow constraints.
He married Anna Lois Dixon, a Euro-American woman from upstate New York.
After his marriage to Anna Dixon ended in divorce, McKee married another Euro-American woman.