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'''Background'''

'''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]

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]

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 Democrat Judge Scott McDowell, who received 18,977 votes (52 percent).[3] Cain carried carried Delta, Hopkins, and Rains counties, but McDowell's winnng margin is attributed to Lamar County. It was after this judicial race that Cain assumed the Hopkins County Republican chairmanship.[4]

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 Democrat Judge Scott McDowell, who received 18,977 votes (52 percent).[3] Cain carried carried Delta, Hopkins, and Rains counties, but McDowell's winnng margin is attributed to Lamar County. It was after this judicial race that Cain assumed the Hopkins County Republican chairmanship.[4]

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 Correctons and Government Efficiency & Reform committees.[8]

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 Correctons and Government Efficiency & Reform committees.[8]

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]

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 in Van Zandt County, 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]