John Raines an Octagon house. His summer home, "Thendara", sat along the eastern shore of Canandaigua Lake at Deep Run Cove and is operated today as a restaurant and inn. (giving Canandaigua as birthplace) John Raines John Raines (May 6, 1840, Geneva, Ontario County, New York – December 16, 1909, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) 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. He was born on May 6, 1840 in Geneva, Ontario County, New York, the son
John Raines and 1904 Republican National Conventions. On December 5, 1906, he became Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York for the remainder of the month after the resignation of M. Linn Bruce who was appointed to the New York Supreme Court by Governor Frank W. Higgins. Raines died on December 16, 1909 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. Raines was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Canandaigua. New York State Treasurer Thomas Raines (1842–1924) and State Senator George Raines (1846–1908) were his brothers. Two of Raines' houses in Canandaigua still stand. His primary home, on the corner of Wood and Gorham Streets, was