John Raines

John Raines ( born May 6, 1840 in Geneva, New York, † December 16, 1909 in Canandaigua, New York) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican). His brother Thomas Raines was New York State Treasurer.

Career

John Raines attended the Canandaigua Academy. Then he studied law at the Law Faculty of the Albany University, 1861 was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Geneva. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army, where he served Volunteer Infantry as a captain in the erected by him Company G of the 85th New York. In addition, he served until July 1863, both in the Army of the Potomac and in the Army of North Carolina.

Raines was in 1881, 1882 and 1885, a member of the New York State Assembly. Then he sat 1886-1889 in the Senate from New York. He was from 1887 until his death president of the Education Committee (English Board of Education ) for the School District of Canandaigua. Then he took in 1888 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part.

Raines was elected to the 51st U.S. Congress and re-elected in the following 52 U.S. Congress. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1889 to 3 March 1893. He then moved back to the Senate from New York, where he worked from 1894 until his death. During this period he held from 1904 the post of president pro tempore. He also attended the Republican National Convention as a substitute delegate in 1900 and 1904.

On December 5, 1906, he was appointed acting lieutenant governor of New York for the remaining term of the resigned Matthew Linn Bruce, who followed an appointment to the New York Supreme Court by Governor Frank W. Higgins. He is known for the constitution of the Raines Law, that the sale of liquor on Sundays prohibited. In this case, an exception was made at the hotels, which inadvertently led to an increase in prostitution.

Raines was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua.