He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives during the American Civil War and resigned his seat to fight for the Confederacy.

Born in Copiah County, Mississippi, McLean moved with his mother to Marshall, Texas, in 1839.

He attended private schools and graduated from the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member and for some time the secretary pro tempore of the Philanthropic Society,[1] in 1857 and was admitted to the bar the next year.

[4] After leaving office, McLean moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and resumed the practice of his profession.

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