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John Jones McRae (January 10, 1815May 31, 1868) was an American politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, the US House and Senate, the Confederate Congress, and as governor of Mississippi.
Biography
McRae was born in Sneedsboro, North Carolina. In 1817, he moved with his parents to Winchester, Mississippi. McRae graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 1834, and the same year he founded the town of Enterprise in Clarke County. McRae attempted to find a navigable path from his new town to the sea via the Chickasawhay River, and in 1842 managed to sail a steamboat from Lake Ponchartrain to Enterprise.
He studied law in Pearlington and was admitted to the bar.
McRae was selected as a Democratic US Senator from Mississippi in 1851 to fill a vacancy, serving in that office until 1852. He ran for Governor of Mississippi in the November 1853 election, defeating his Whig opponent Francis M. Rogers by a sizeable margin.