Born in Marianna , Florida , McRae received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from the University of Florida in 1932 . He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University in 1933 . He received a Juris Doctor from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida in 1933 . He received a Bachelor of Letters from Oxford University in 1936 . He was in private practice of law in Jacksonville , Florida from 1936 to 1940 . He was a Professor of Law at the University of Florida from 1940 to 1941 . He was in the United States Army Air Corps as a Colonel from 1942 to 1945 . He served as an adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the June 1945 San Francisco Conference , which founded the United Nations and drafted the United Nations Charter . He was in private practice of law in Bartow , Florida from 1946 to 1961
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William McRae