The author will provide a 30-minute overview of his new biography of Senator George P. McLean, sponsor of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act.  This is a full-scale biography the person most responsible for ending the needless, wholesale killing of birds at a critical point in time.  The author will trace McLean’s rise from obscurity as a Connecticut farm boy to national prominence.  McLean came to know seven US presidents and spent 18 years in the US Senate.  Greeley’s book has been endorsed by ten ornithologists and historians, including David Allen Sibley, birding authority, and Dr. Donald Ritchie, Historian Emeritus for the US Senate.  A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington was published by the Rochester Institute of Technology Press in March 2023.

Will McLean Greeley grew up in West Michigan with a passion for American history, politics, and birds. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and then a master’s degree from Michigan in archives administration. After retiring from a thirty-five-year career in government and corporate market research, he embarked upon a three-year research and writing journey to learn about his great-great-uncle George P. McLean and his legacy. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington is his first book.ent will be in the Carlisle Room