Albert Rains
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Albert Rains | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's at-large district | |
In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965 | |
Preceded by | District inactive |
Succeeded by | District inactive |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 5th district | |
In office January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1963 | |
Preceded by | Joe Starnes |
Succeeded by | District inactive |
Member of the Alabama House of Representatives | |
In office 1941-1944 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Grove Oak, Alabama, US | March 11, 1902
Died | March 22, 1991 Gadsden, Alabama, US | (aged 89)
Political party | Democratic |
Albert McKinley Rains (March 11, 1902 – March 22, 1991) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
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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
- United States Congress. "Albert Rains (id: R000018)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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