Albert Rains

Albert McKinley Rains ( born March 11, 1902 in Oak Grove, DeKalb County, Alabama, † March 22, 1991 in Gadsden, Alabama ) was an American politician and represented the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rains attended the public schools, the. Snead Seminary, Boaz, the State Teachers College at Jacksonville and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he studied law He was admitted to the bar in 1928 and opened a practice in Gadsden in the following year. After that, he was from 1930 to 1935 deputy prosecutor in Etowah County and 1935-1944 represented the city of Gadsden.

From 1941 to 1944 Rains sat in the House of Representatives from Alabama. He was then elected as a Democrat in the 79th and the nine subsequent Congresses. His activity in the House of Representatives, he held between January 1945 and January 3, 1965 3. Then he decided not to run again for the 89th Congress. He worked as the CEO of First City National Bank ( later First Alabama Bank of Gadsden), until in 1979 he was the Chairman Emeritus. Until his death in 1991 he lived in Gadsden.

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