James M. Collins

James M. Collins (1979)

James Mitchell Collins (born April 29, 1916 in Hallsville , Texas , †  July 21, 1989 in Dallas , Texas) was an American politician . Between 1968 and 1983 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Collins attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas and then studied until 1937 at the local Southern Methodist University . He then continued his education until 1938 at Northwestern University in Evanston ( Illinois ). In 1940 he graduated from American College . Collins graduated from Harvard Business School in 1943 . Between 1943 and 1945 he served as a US Army soldier in Europe under the command of General George S. Patton during World War II .

After the war, James Collins was initially a private businessman. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He was a member and in 1955 chairman of the White House Conference of the Youth , a presidential advisory committee on youth issues. In 1968, Collins was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , where Richard Nixon was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of MP Joe R. Pool , Collins was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the third seat of Texas , where he took up his new mandate on August 24, 1968. After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1983 . During this time, among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair fell . In 1982 he waived a possible re-election. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . James Collins died in Dallas on July 21, 1989.

Web links

• James M. Collins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)