US Congressman, Lawyer, Judge. He was a United States Representative from the State of New York. He was born one of two children to Matthew MacCrate (1861-1922), and his wife Isabella Kerr MacCrate (1861-1913), in Dumbarton, Scotland, on March 29, 1885. He immigrated with his mother to the United States in 1893 and they settled in the area of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, where his father was already living and working. He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools and the Commercial High School in Brooklyn, New York, before attending and graduating from the distinguished Law Department of New York University in New York City, New York, in 1906. Following his graduation, he was admitted to the bar in 1906, and commenced his practice of law in New York City, New York, shortly thereafter. He then became interested in politics and served as a Candidate for the New York State Senate representing the 7th District in 1909, as a Candidate for the New York State Assembly from Kings County, New York, representing the 15th District in 1909, as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916, and as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was nominated in the primaries by both the Republican Party and Democratic Party and was elected to represent the Sixty-Sixth United States Congress, having succeeded the outgoing United States Representative Joseph Vincent Flynn (1883-1940), on March 4, 1919. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served New York's 3rd District (Sixty-Sixth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1919, to December 30, 1920. He then resigned his seat in the United States Congress, when he was elected to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of the State of New York in 1920. Following his term in the United States Congress, his seat remained vacant due to his resignation from December 30, 1920, to March 3, 1921, until his seat was taken over by the United States Representative John Kissel (1864-1938), on March 4, 1921. In total, he was elected in 1918 and resigned his seat to become Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in 1920, and his seat remained vacant from December 30, 1920, to March 3, 1921, until his seat was taken over by United States Representative John Kissel (1864-1938), on March 3, 1921. After his first term as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in 1920, he resumed his practice of law for a time. He was reelected as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in 1934, and as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York again in 1948. He then served as the Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court representing the 2nd Department until December 31, 1955, when he reached the the retirement age limit. He had served in full as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York from 1920 to 1955. He was the official referee of the New York State Supreme Court in 1956, 1957, and again in 1958. He was also a longtime parishioner of the Greenpoint Methodist Church in Brooklyn, New York. He passed away from natural causes at the Madonna Residence, a home for the elderly, in Brooklyn, New York, on June 9, 1976, at the age of 91. Following his death, his funeral services were held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, and he was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York. He was married to Flora Louise Ross McNicholl MacCrate (1883-1963), in Rennselaer, New York, on November 20, 1911, and the couple had two children together, including Robert MacCrate (1921-2016), and John MacCrate Jr. (1916-2002). His wife Flora passed away on November 17, 1963, at the age of 81, and she is also buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York.