He ran for and won his Senate seat 8 years later. When he entered the U.S. Senate In 1958 as a professor of history at the University of Wyoming. he was one of only five nonlawyers among the 16 new Members elected. Ours is a system of party politics. and Gale McGee was a Democrat with the best of us. but he also had a sense of governance which made his talents sought by Republican administrations whether as Ambassador to the OAS under President Reagan or service on the Indochinese Refugee Panel under Secretary of State George Shultz. To Gale McGees wife Loraine. his four children David. Robert.