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==Background==

==Background==

McAteer was converted to [[Jesus Christ]] at the age of fourteen.<ref name=bpnews/> He attended but did not graduate from  [[Memphis State University]] and briefly enrolled at a law school.<ref name=nyt/> He served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and was a survivor of the first ship sunk by a [[Japan]]ese [[kamikaze]] plane in 1945. He was a former Golden Gloves boxer in Memphis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2004/10/06/ed-mcateer-christian-conservative|title=Ed McAteer: Christian Conservative: Genial activist had friendships across social and political lines|publisher=''Memphis Flyer''|date=October 6, 2004|accessdate=May 27, 2016}}<ref>

McAteer was converted to [[Jesus Christ]] at the age of fourteen.<ref name=bpnews/> He attended but did not graduate from the University of Memphis, then known as Memphis State University, and briefly enrolled at a law school.<ref name=nyt/> He served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and was a survivor of the first ship sunk by a [[Japan]]ese [[kamikaze]] plane in 1945. He was a former Golden Gloves boxer in Memphis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2004/10/06/ed-mcateer-christian-conservative|title=Ed McAteer: Christian Conservative: Genial activist had friendships across social and political lines|publisher=''Memphis Flyer''|date=October 6, 2004|accessdate=May 27, 2016}}<ref>

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 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>

==Conservative causes==

==Conservative causes==