Major General Howard Samuel McGee (1915–2005) was born in Port Townsend, Washington on October 4, 1915. McGee attended the University of Washington from 1935 to 1940. While at the University McGee was enrolled in the ROTC program and subsequently commissioned as Second Lieutenant, Coast Artillery Corps, Officers Reserve Corps on 15 March 1940. In his later years, McGee suffered from prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease. He died January 18, 2005 at his home in Seattle of renal failure.