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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.
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.
==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). 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. 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.
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). 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. 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.
==References==
1.^ "Rep. Erwin Cain". txdirectory.com. http://www.txdirectory.com/online/person/?id=39653. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
1.^ "Rep. Erwin Cain". txdirectory.com. http://www.txdirectory.com/online/person/?id=39653. Retrieved September 28, 2011.