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Colin J. McRae (born Colin John McRae; October 22, 1812 – February 1877) was an American politician who had served as a Deputy from
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Biography

Colin J. McRae was born on October 22, 1812, in
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, served as the 21st Governor of Mississippi (1854–1857). Before the
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, McRae was a merchant from
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. He co-owned a
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in
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, which made
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and iron plate for gunboats. Some of these gunboats were used during the war. McRae served as Confederate States Financial Agent in Europe from 1862 to 1865. In 1867, McRae moved to Puerto de Caballos,
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), where he purchased land and ran a plantation and mercantile business centered on
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. McRae died there in February 1877. He bequeathed the plantation and mercantile business to his sister and her husband. They leased the plantation to tenants until 1894.
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found relics of his Belize plantation house on an archeological expedition in the middle of the Belize Valley. His records were found in
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in Mobile, Alabama. They are held at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, in
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.


See also

* Confederate settlements in British Honduras


References


Further reading

* Charles S. Davis, ''Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent'' (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Confederate Publishing, 1961). * Ray J. Fletcher, ''Colin J. McRae, Confederate Agent in Europe'' (Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University Press, 1956).


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