James William Collier

James Collier

James William Collier (born September 28, 1872 on the Glenwood Plantation near Vicksburg , Mississippi , † September 28, 1933 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1933 he represented the eighth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After primary school, James Collier studied law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford until 1894 . After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to practice in his new profession in Vicksburg.

Collier was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1896 and 1899 he was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives . Between 1900 and 1909 he was a court clerk ( Circuit Clerk ) in Warren County . In the congressional elections of 1908, Collier was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the eighth district of Mississippi, where he replaced John Sharp Williams on March 4, 1909 . After he was re-elected ten times, he was able to complete a total of eleven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . There he was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means between 1931 and 1933 .

After a discussion about the redistribution of the constituencies of Mississippi and the election of the MPs after the dissolution of the eighth district in 1932, Collier decided not to run for Congress. In March 1933 he was appointed to the Customs Commission ( United States Tariff Commission ) by the new President Franklin D. Roosevelt . He retained this mandate until his death in September of the same year. James Collier was buried in Vicksburg.

Web links

• James William Collier in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James William Collier in the database of Find a Grave (English)