Jack Morris Rains (November 23, 1937 – July 5, 2023) was an American attorney in

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, who was the 95th

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, 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

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Ann Willis Richards, then the

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. Other candidates in the field with Rains and Williams were Kent Hance, a former congressman and previously a Democrat, and Tom Luce, a

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lawyer. Rains died on July 5, 2023, at the age of 85.

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