Charles "Chuck" McRae (born c. 1939)
[ Leslie Southwick]
Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996
18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998). is an American retired judge. He served as a justice of the
Supreme Court of Mississippi
The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the Supreme court, highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was established in 1818 per the terms of the first constitution of the state and was known as the High Court of Errors and Appeals from 1832 to 1 ...
from November 1990 to January 2004.
Education
McRae graduated from
Marietta College
Marietta College (MC) is a private liberal arts college in Marietta, Ohio, United States. Its campus encompasses approximately six city blocks next to downtown Marietta and enrolls 1,200 students.
History
Marietta College began as the Muskin ...
in
Marietta, Ohio
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, and taught in Mississippi and Florida.
Career
McRae worked as a lawyer in
Gulfport, Mississippi
Gulfport ( ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, and its co-county seat. It had a population of 72,926 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Mississippi, second-most populous ...
.
He ran for a seat on the court occupied by
Joel Blass, who had been appointed to a seat vacated by the death of judge
Ruble Griffin. McRae saturated the media with campaign ads and toured the state to defeat Blass in the Democratic primary.
McRae ran for reelection in 1994, winning by default after his initial Republican opponent withdrew to accept another office, and the substitution of another candidate was ruled to be in violation of the election statute.
He was censured in 1997. A 2003 ''
Forbes
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'' article describes him as favoring plaintiffs and having received most of his campaign funding from plaintiff lawyers. It describes his successor, Jess Dickinson, as being more favorable to business.
Personal life
In 2017, McRae was in an
intensive care unit
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An inten ...
after a
scuba diving
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accident. He has one daughter.
See also
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List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Following is a list of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
These justices served in three different iterations of the court.Dunbar Roland, ed., ''The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi'', Volume 1 (1904), p. ...
References
Justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Marietta College alumni
People from Gulfport, Mississippi
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American judges
Mississippi Democrats
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