Background
He was born at Dunmore on the Hunter River to farmer Alexander McRae and Mary McInnes.
He was born at Dunmore on the Hunter River to farmer Alexander McRae and Mary McInnes.
He was a businessman in Morpeth, and later a land speculator in Sydney. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Protectionist member for Morpeth, but he did not contest the 1891 election. McRae died at Penshurst in 1926.