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) and

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. The son of Helen and Duncan Van McRae, he was born in

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McRae attended the

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and attended but did not graduate from

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. In 1883, while serving as advertising manager of ''

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'', McRae met thirty-year-old E. W. Scripps, who had taken over as managing editor. The two began a business relationship that would last for many years. In 1887, Scripps made McRae the managing director of the St. Louis Chronicle, a paper Scripps had purchased in 1880. In 1889, Scripps brought McRae on as a partner, and in 1894, together with Scripps and his half-brother George, McRae founded the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers. In 1907, the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers combined three regional press associations into the United Press Association. McRae was President of the Detroit Board of Commerce from 1911 to 1912. He became the third

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upon the death of James J. Storrow in 1926.

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AEJMC Archives – September 1997, week 4 (#55)
at list.msu.edu

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Chamber History: Business Leaders, 1903-2003
at www.detroitchamber.com

at www.dacbsa.org American newspaper publishers (people) Businesspeople from Detroit 1858 births 1930 deaths Wayne State University alumni 19th-century American businesspeople Presidents of the Boy Scouts of America {{Scout-bio-stub

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