Erwin Cain

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Erwin Alfred Cain
Member of the TexasHouseofRepresentatives
from the 3rd district
In office
2011–2013
Preceded byMark S. Homer
Succeeded by Cecil Bell, Jr. (redistricted)
Personal details
Born (1960-03-15) March 15, 1960 (age 59)
Political party Republican
Spouse(s)Hope Hunter Cain
Children3
Residence
Alma mater
OccupationLawyer, businessman

Erwin Alfred Cain (born March 15, 1960) is an attorney and businessman from Sulphur Springs, Texas, who served from 2011 to 2013 as a one-term Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 3 (Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Red River, and Titus counties. [1] Prior to his election to the state House, the conservative Cain had served as the chairman of the Hopkins County Republican Party. He also launched and chaired the Northeast Texas GOP Chairmen’s Coalition. [2]

Sulphur Springs, Texas City in Texas, United States

Sulphur Springs is a city in Hopkins County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,449. It is the county seat of Hopkins County. Sulphur Springs is located along the western edge of Northeast Texas.

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Background

Cain is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison Cain, Sr. In 1982, he received an associate's degree from Kilgore Junior College in Kilgore, Texas. He graduated in 1985 from Texas A&M University at Texarkana with a Bachelor of Science degree in management and marketing. In 1988, Cain earned his law degree from the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Cain and his wife, the former Hope Hunter, reside in Como outside Sulphur Springs, with their three children, Hunter, Averi, and Honour. He is active in the First Baptist Church of Sulphur Springs. [2]

Kilgore, Texas City in Texas, United States

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In 2008, Cain was narrowly defeated in a race for the 62nd Judicial District state judgeship. With 17,479 votes (48 percent), he lost to the incumbent Democratic Judge Scott McDowell, who received 18,977 votes (52 percent). [3] Cain carried Delta, Hopkins, and Rains counties, but McDowell's winning margin is attributed to Lamar County. It was after this judicial race that Cain assumed the Hopkins County Republican chairmanship. [4]

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Rains County, Texas County in the United States

Rains County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,914. Its seat is Emory. The county are named for Emory Rains, a Texas state legislator.

Legislative matters

With 7,074 votes (60.1 percent), Cain won the Republican nomination for the District 3 House seat on March 2, 2010, by defeating Holland Harper of Paris, the county seat of Lamar County in northeast Texas, who trailed with 4,689 (39.9 percent). [5] In the ensuing general election on November 2, 2010, Cain unseated the six-term Democratic Representative Mark S. Homer, also of Paris. Homer had narrowly won reelection in 2008 over the Republican Kirby Hollingsworth of Mount Vernon. [6] Cain received 19,974 votes (56.6 percent) to 14,645 (41.5 percent). The remaining 665 ballots (1.9 percent) went to the Libertarian nominee, J. Douglas Froneberger. [7]

Paris, Texas City in Texas, United States

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Prior to his election, Cain had listed his legislative priorities as the reduction of state spending and taxation, protection of property and Second Amendment rights, halting illegal immigration, the passage of a voter identification bill, and the creation of new jobs economic development. [2] Cain serves on the House Corrections and Government Efficiency & Reform committees. [8]

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Late in 2010, even before Cain took office, Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola in Wood County, claimed that Larry Phillips, a lawmaker from Sherman, told Hughes that the conservative Cain and neighboring Representative Dan Flynn of Van, Texas, would be redistricted for the 2012 elections because they had declined to commit to the second-term reelection of Speaker Joe Straus, a moderate Republican from San Antonio. In a hearing before the House Ethics Committee, chaired by another East Texas representative, Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville, an ally of Speaker Straus, Phillips denied having made such a claim to Hughes. Neither Hughes nor Phillips taped the conversation. No judgment was made by the committee because of the lack of corroborating witnesses. [9]

Mineola, Texas City in Texas, United States

Mineola is a city in Wood County, Texas, United States. It lies at the junction of U.S. highways 69 and 80, eighty miles east of Dallas in southwestern Wood County. The population was 4,515 at the 2010 census.

Wood County, Texas County in the United States

Wood County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,964. Its county seat is Quitman. The county was named for George T. Wood, governor of Texas from 1847 to 1849.

Lawrence Augustine Phillips, known as Larry Phillips, is an attorney from Sherman, Texas, who has been serving as judge of the Texas District Court for Grayson, Fannin, and Delta counties since 2018. He previously served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 62.

Cain, like his colleague Lanham Lyne of Wichita Falls in North Texas, did not seek a second term in 2012.

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References

  1. ↑ "Rep. Erwin Cain". txdirectory.com. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "About Erwin". erwincain.com. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Texas general election returns, November 4, 2008". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Changing of the Guard for Hopkins County Republican Party". frontporchnewstexas.com. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Republican primary returns, March 2, 2010". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Mark Homer". lrl.state.tx.us. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Texas general election returns, November 2, 2010". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Erwin Cain". lrl.state.tx.us. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  9. ↑ ""Texas House Ethics Panel Takes No Action on Alleged Redistricting Threats by Vice-chair Phillips," November 23, 2010". americanindependent.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by
Mark S. Homer		 Texas State Representative from District 3 (Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Red River, and Titus counties)

Erwin Alfred Cain
2011–2013

Succeeded by
Cecil Bell, Jr.
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