Colin J. McRae | |
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Deputy from
Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States | |
In office February 4, 1861 – February 17, 1862 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Colin John McRae October 22, 1812 Anson County, North Carolina, U.S. |
Died | February 1877 Puerto de Caballos, British Honduras (present-day Puerto Cortés, Belize) | (aged 64)
Political party | Democratic |
Relations | John J. McRae (brother) |
Colin J. McRae (born Colin John McRae; October 22, 1812 – February 1877) was an American politician who had served as a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. [1] [2] [3]
Colin J. McRae was born on October 22, 1812, in Anson County, North Carolina. [4] His brother, John J. McRae, served as the 21st Governor of Mississippi (1854–1857). [1] Before the Civil War, McRae was a merchant from Mobile, Alabama. [1] He co-owned a foundry in Selma, Alabama, which made ammunition and iron plate for gunboats. [5] Some of these gunboats were used during the war. [6]
McRae served as Confederate States Financial Agent in Europe from 1862 to 1865. [1] [2] [3]
In 1867, McRae moved to Puerto de Caballos, British Honduras (present-day Puerto Cortés, Belize), where he purchased land and ran a plantation and mercantile business centered on mahogany. [1] [2] McRae died there in February 1877. [4] [7] He bequeathed the plantation and mercantile business to his sister and her husband. [1] They leased the plantation to tenants until 1894. [8] The location of his grave, in Belize, is unknown. [4]
In October 2011, a college student at the University of New Hampshire found relics of his Belize plantation house on an archeological expedition in the middle of the Belize Valley. [2] His records were found in Monterey Place in Mobile, Alabama. [1] They are held at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, in Columbia, South Carolina.