Mcrae, John J
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born about 1810 in Wayne county, Miss. He was elected, frequently, to the Mississippi state legislature, and during two sessions officiated as speaker. He was also elected to the state senate; and was, in 1851, for a short time in the United States senate. He was governor of Mississippi from 1854 to 1858, and was elected to the second session of the thirty-fifth congress from Mississippi, as successor to General Quitman, and was re-elected to the thirtysixth congress. He joined the great rebellion in 1861. He died May 30, 1868, in British Honduras.