John J. McRae

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder John Jones McRae (January 10, 1815Template:Spaced ndashMay 31, 1868) was an American politician in Mississippi. A Democrat,<ref name="sccrr">Colin J. McRae Collection, Columbia, South Carolina: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum</ref> he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as governor of Mississippi.

Biography

McRae was born in Sneedsboro, North Carolina. In 1817, he moved with his parents to Winchester, Mississippi.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1834, McRae founded the town of Enterprise in Clarke County. McRae attempted to navigate the Chickasawhay River by steamboat, and in 1842 took a steamboat from Lake Ponchartrain to Enterprise.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1847 to 1851.<ref name="sccrr"/> During that time, he helped set up the University of Mississippi.<ref name="simmons">Donald C. Simmons, Jr., Confederate Settlements in British Honduras, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2001, p. 91 [1]</ref> He also represented Mississippi in the United States Senate in 1851 and 1852, in the U.S. Congress in the 35th and 36th congresses, and in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.<ref name="sccrr"/> He also served as the 21st Governor of Mississippi from 1854 to 1857.<ref name="sccrr"/>

He died on a visit to British Honduras (now Belize), where his brother Colin J. McRae lived in exile.<ref name="simmons"/>

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