sentences:  Rains was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1965).Having been a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in "Brown v. Board of Education", he voted against H.R.6127, Civil Rights Act of 1957.