Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Emory Rains

Full Name: Emory Rains
Birth date: May 4, 1800
Death date: March 4, 1878

Terms of Service

Senate, 8th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861
House, 5th Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
House, 4th Legislature
11/3/1851 - 11/7/1853
House, 2nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
12/13/1847 - 11/5/1849

(1) Roster of members of the 2nd Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 12/15/1847, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(2) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment, oath of office administered, 11/7/1859, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(3) 8th Legislature - One of 15 newcomers to the Senate, 8th Regular Session, p. 302. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Emery Rains, age 53, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Tennessee in 1816, farmer, postoffice Shelbyville, Shelby County. House Journal .
Emery Rains. Senate Journal . 8th R.S.

Photographs

Photograph. Emory Rains, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, p. 157. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 1942.
Emory Rains, birth date 5/4/1800, death date 3/4/1878, burial in Emory City Cemetery, Emory, Rains County. Includes portrait, historical marker photo. Find a Grave .
RAINS, EMORY (1800-1878). "Sometime before 1859 he moved to Wood County; he represented that county in the Senate of the Eighth Legislature." Handbook of Texas Online .
RAINS, JOHN D. (1824-?). Born 1824 in Alabama; died sometime after 1870. Relatives: Emory Rains, father; John D. Rains, son. Handbook of Texas Online .
RAINS COUNTY and EMORY, TEXAS, named for Emory Rains. Handbook of Texas Online . Handbook of Texas Online
Sarah Brown Hipp Barrett, mother of Eli Brown Barrett, was the niece of Emory Rains, pp. 104-105. Relatives: Emory Rains - great-uncle; Eli Brown Barrett - great-nephew. Bonham Public Library. Fannin County Folks & Facts, 1977, crediting Fannin County Historical Commission. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Report of the death of the Hon. Emory Rains in the Sherman Courier, "State Press," The Galveston Daily News, 4/28/1878, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Emory Rains. "As a state senator from Wood County, Rains refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy and remained at home farming for the rest of the war." Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Historical marker, Emory Rains, Emory, Rains County. Birth date 5/2/1800, death date 8/11/1878. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .