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About John Raines
John Raines was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He authored the 1896 Raines Law, which prohibited liquor sales on Sundays, except in hotels, which had the unintended consequence of fostering prostitution.
Everything about John Raines →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, lieutenant governor, jurist
- Position held
- United States representative, member of the State Senate of New York, member of the New York State Assembly
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 6, 1840
- Died
- December 16, 1909