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.
[1] He co-owned a foundry in Selma, Alabama, which made ammunition and iron plate for gunboats.
[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.