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For more than twenty years, McAteer was  a sales manager for the southeastern states for Colgate-Palmolive. He left the firm in 1976 to devote full time to conservative causes.<ref name=nyt/>

For more than twenty years, McAteer was  a sales manager for the southeastern states for Colgate-Palmolive. He left the firm in 1976 to devote full time to conservative causes.<ref name=nyt/>

McAteer and his wife, the former Faye Carter (born 1924), had two sons, Edward, Jr., of Murfreesboro in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and Timothy McAteer of Bartlett in Shelby County, Tennessee, and six grandchildren.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/us/edward-e-mcateer-78-empowered-christian-right.html?_r=0|title=Edward E. McAteer, 78; Empowered Christian Right|author=Margalit Fox|date=October 10, 2004|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=May 26, 2016}}</ref>

McAteer and his wife, the former Faye Carter (born November 26, 1924), had two sons living in the Memphis area, Edward, Jr. (born October 1, 1949), of Murfreesboro in Rutherford County, and Timothy Darryl McAteer (born March 13, 1953) of Bartlett in Shelby County, and six grandchildren.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/us/edward-e-mcateer-78-empowered-christian-right.html?_r=0|title=Edward E. McAteer, 78; Empowered Christian Right|author=Margalit Fox|date=October 10, 2004|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=May 26, 2016}}</ref>

==Conservative causes==

==Conservative causes==