Jack Rains

{{short description|American politician (1937–2023)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|11|23}}

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| office = Secretary of State of Texas

| term_start = 1987

| term_end = 1989

| predecessor = Myra McDaniel

| successor = George Bayoud

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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,[https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=QrtdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9F0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2364,4342819&dq=jack-rains&hl=en Jack Rains Appointed Secretary] having served from 1987 to 1989. He left the position to contest unsuccessfully for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1990.[https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=NjxEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D7AMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1117,910760&dq=jack-rains&hl=en Bruising Runoff Expected in Texas Governor's Race] 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.{{cite web |title=Hon. Jack M. Rains |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/jack-rains-11361052 |website=Dignity Memorial |access-date=7 July 2023}}