McGee, Anita Newcomb (1864–1940)
| US physician. Appointed assistant army surgeon in 1898, the first woman to hold such a position, she organized the Army Nurse Corps (1898–1900) for service in the Spanish-American War and thereafter. McGee was born in Washington, DC. |
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