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Mcrae, Thomas Chipman

soldier, legislator, was born Dec. 21, 1851, in Mount Olive, Ark. He received his education at the private schools of Shady Grove, Columbia county; Mount Holly, Union county; and Falcon, Nevada county, Ark. In boyhood he worked on farm, one year in a wholesale mercantile establishment of Shreveport, La., and one year in a retail store at Fala con, Ark. He received a full course of instruction at Soulé Business college of New Orleans, La., and graduated in law at the Washington and Lee university of Virginia. He was admitted to practice in state circuit courts in Rosston, Nevada county, Ark., in 1873; in the Arkansas supreme court in 1876, and in the United States supreme court in 1886. He was a member of the state legislature of Arkansas in 1877, in which year the county seat was changed, and he moved from Rosston to Prescott, where he has since practiced his profession. He was a member of the town council of the incorporated town of Prescott in 1879; was a presidential elector for Hancock and English in 1880; was chairman of the democratic state convention in 1884; was delegate to the national democratic convention in 1884, and is now the democratic national committeeman for Arkansas. He was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.