Career
Bain's professional career centered on the practice of law in Warrenton, Virginia, where he worked as a partner of Gulick, Carson & Pearson. The firm's practice associated with him encompassed general criminal and civil law, real estate, probate, and domestic relations, along with trial work.
Warrenton is the county seat of Fauquier County, a Piedmont community about 40 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Fauquier County was formed in 1759 from part of Prince William County, and Warrenton was incorporated in 1810. The Fauquier County Courthouse in the town's historic district houses the county's General District Court, and the historic district has long been associated with lawyers and politicians, including John Marshall, who practiced there.
