Albert Rains
U.S. Congressperson
1902 – 1991
Who was Albert Rains?
Albert McKinley Rains was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Grove Oak, Alabama, Rains attended the public schools, Snead Seminary, Boaz, Alabama, State Teachers College, Jacksonville, Alabama, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Gadsden, Alabama, in 1929. He served as deputy solicitor for Etowah County, Alabama from 1930 to 1935, and as city attorney for the city of Gadsden, Alabama from 1935 to 1944. He served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives 1941-1944.
Rains was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses. In 1957, he voted against H.R. 6127, Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He served as chairman of board, First City National Bank until becoming chairman emeritus in 1979. He was a resident of Gadsden, Alabama, until his death there on March 22, 1991.
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- Born
- Mar 11, 1902
DeKalb County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Mar 22, 1991
Gadsden
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on July 23, 2013
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