Albert Rains Explained

State1:Alabama
District1:at-large
Term Start1:January 3, 1963
Term End1:January 3, 1965
Predecessor1:District inactive
Successor1:District inactive
State2:Alabama
District2:5th
Term Start2:January 3, 1945
Term End2:January 3, 1963
Predecessor2:Joe Starnes
Successor2:District inactive
Office3:Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
Term3:1941-1944
Birth Date:11 March 1902
Birth Place:Grove Oak, Alabama, US
Death Place:Gadsden, Alabama, US
Party:Democratic

Albert McKinley Rains (March 11, 1902 – March 22, 1991) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.

Born in Grove Oak, Alabama, Rains attended the public schools, Snead Seminary, Boaz, Alabama, State Teachers College (now Jacksonville State University), 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 (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1965). Having been a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, he voted against H.R. 6127, Civil Rights Act of 1957.[1] He was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He served as chairman of board, First City National Bank (later First Alabama Bank of Gadsden) until becoming chairman emeritus in 1979. He was a resident of Gadsden, Alabama, until his death there on March 22, 1991.

References

  1. Web site: HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. -- House Vote #42 -- Jun 18, 1957.