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Duncan McFadyen Rae CMG (2 June 1888 – 3 February 1964) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
Rae was born in Mataura. He received his education at Knox College and at Otago University, where he gained an MA and a diploma of education. He was in the NZEF in World War I. He taught at East Cape School in Invercargill for ten years, and was then Vice-Principal (1924–1929) then Principal (1929–1947) at the Auckland Teachers' Training College.
He represented the Auckland electorates of Parnell from 1946 to 1954, and then Eden from 1954 (succeeding Wilfred Fortune) to 1960, when he retired.
He was made Consul-General to Indonesia (1961–1963) then Chargé d'Affaires to Indonesia (1963).
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1963 New Year Honours. He died suddenly on 3 February 1964 in Auckland.