Charles Lemuel Kagey (December 22, 1876 – October 13, 1941) was an American lawyer and diplomat from Kansas.

Life

Kagey was born on December 22, 1876 in the Kagey homestead near Rude's Hill, Virginia, on the

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. He was the son of John Henry Kagey and Emma Fultz. John was a farmer who received a commission in the

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during the American Civil War. Kagey attended the Polytechnic Institute in

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. He then went to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, graduating from there with a law degree in 1898. He then moved to Kansas and began practicing law in Hays City. In 1899, he was appointed county attorney of Logan County. He then spent two years in Russell Springs. In 1901, he moved to Beloit and began practicing law there. In 1904, he formed the law firm Kagey & Anderson, which practiced all over the state, served as the local attorneys for Union Pacific Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad, and was general counsel for the Scott City Northern Railway Company. He was an active member of the

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and was considered as a possible Republican candidate for Kansas Attorney General in the 1910 election but he declined to be a candidate. In 1921, President Hoover nominated Kagey as American Minister to Finland. He resigned as Minister in 1925 and returned to Beloit. In 1931, he moved to Wichita and became a member of the law firm Kagey, Black & Kagey. In 1901, Kagey married Phebe M. Wanzer of Russell Springs. They had one son, Lloyd M. He was vice-president of the American Bar Association, president of the

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, and a director of the Kansas Historical Society. He was a member of the Academy of Political Science, the National Geographic Society, the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the

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. Kagey died on October 13, 1941 in Wichita. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Beloit.

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