Ross A. Collins

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Ross A. Collins (around 1921)

Ross Alexander Collins (born April 25, 1880 in Collinsville , Lauderdale County , Mississippi , † July 14, 1968 in Meridian , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1935 and again from 1937 to 1943 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ross Collins attended Meridian Public Schools and then Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College . He then studied until 1900 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington . After completing a law degree at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and his admission to the bar in 1901, he began to work in Meridian in his new profession.

Collins was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1912 and 1920 he was Attorney General for the State of Mississippi. In 1919 he ran unsuccessfully for governor . In the congressional elections of 1920 he was elected in the fifth district of Mississippi to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he replaced William W. Venable on March 4, 1921 . After he had been confirmed in each of the six subsequent congressional elections, Collins could remain in Congress until January 3, 1935 . In 1934 he renounced a candidacy in favor of a then unsuccessful application within his party for their nomination to the US Senate .

In the 1936 elections, Collins ran successfully again for his old seat in the House of Representatives. After he had been re-elected in 1938 and 1940, he was able to complete three more legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1943. In 1941 another attempt to win a seat in the Senate failed. In the 1942 elections, Collins decided not to run for the House of Representatives again. Instead, he sought again unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the Senate. After leaving Congress, Collins returned to practice as a lawyer. He has no longer held any other political offices.

Web links

  • Ross A. Collins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Collins, Ross A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collins, Ross Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Collinsville , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1968
Place of death Meridian , Mississippi