Albert McKinley Rains was a Representative from Alabama to the Congress of the United States 1945-1965. He was born in Grove Oak, DeKalb County, AL, March 11, 1902; attended public schools, John H. Snead Seminary, Boaz, Ala., State Teachers College, Jacksonville, Ala., and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Rains studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Gadsden, Ala., in 1929. He was deputy solicitor for Etowah County, Ala., 1930-1935; city attorney for the city of Gadsden, Ala., 1935-1944; served as a member of the State house of representatives 1941-1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1965); and was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He was chairman of the board of the First City National Bank (later First Alabama Bank of Gadsden) until becoming chairman emeritus in 1979. Rains was a resident of Gadsden, Ala., until his death there on March 22, 1991.
Albert McKinley Rains was a Representative from Alabama to the Congress of the United States 1945-1965. He was born in Grove Oak, DeKalb County, AL, March 11, 1902; attended public schools, John H. Snead Seminary, Boaz, Ala., State Teachers College, Jacksonville, Ala., and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Rains studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Gadsden, Ala., in 1929. He was deputy solicitor for Etowah County, Ala., 1930-1935; city attorney for the city of Gadsden, Ala., 1935-1944; served as a member of the State house of representatives 1941-1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1965); and was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He was chairman of the board of the First City National Bank (later First Alabama Bank of Gadsden) until becoming chairman emeritus in 1979. Rains was a resident of Gadsden, Ala., until his death there on March 22, 1991.
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