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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 4, 2019

Knoxville lawyer Daniel Fisher McGehee died Oct. 29 at the age of 75. McGehee graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1964 and joined the National Guard, where he rose to the rank of Sergeant First Class. From 1969 to 1971 he worked for a political consulting firm in Washington, D.C., where he ran polling for Howard Baker’s first statewide election. McGehee returned to Tennessee to attend the University of Tennessee College of Law, graduating in 1974. He then founded his own law firm in downtown Knoxville where he remained the principal partner for the remainder of his life. A celebration of life and reception will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 800 S. Northshore Dr., Knoxville 37919.