Joseph H. Gaines
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Joseph Holt Gaines (September 3, 1864 - April 12, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from West Virginia.
Born in Washington, D.C., Gaines moved with his parents to Fayette County, W.Virginia, in 1867. He attended the University of West Virginia at Morgantown and was graduated from Princeton College in 1886. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Fayetteville, W.Virginia. He was appointed United States district attorney for West Virginia by President McKinley in 1897. He resigned in 1901.
Gaines was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1911). He served as chairman of the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910. He resumed the practice of law in Charleston, W.Virginia. He died in Montgomery, W.Virginia, April 12, 1951. He was interred in Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Virginia.
