About Jack Rains
Lived 1937 – 2023 (aged 85). Jack Rains was an American lawyer.
Jack Morris Rains (November 23, 1937 – July 5, 2023) was an American attorney in Houston, Texas, who was the 95th Secretary of State of Texas, having served from 1987 to 1989. He left the position to contest unsuccessfully for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1990. He lost to businessman Clayton W. Williams, Jr., of Midland, who was then narrowly defeated in the general election by the Democrat Ann Willis Richards, then the state treasurer. Other candidates in the field with Rains and Williams were Kent Hance, a former congressman and previously a Democrat, and Tom Luce, a Dallas lawyer.
Rains died on July 5, 2023, at the age of 85.
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Who was Jack Rains?
American lawyer
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Jack Rains was born on 23 November 1937.
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Jack Rains died on 5 July 2023.
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Jack Rains was a lawyer.
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Jack Rains was American.
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