Lewis Preston Collins

Lewis Preston "Pat" Collins (born December 25, 1896 in Lynchburg , Virginia , †  September 20, 1952 in Wythe County , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1946 and 1952 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia.

Career

In 1920, Lewis Collins graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Marion . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1940 and 1944 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions , at which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was each nominated for re-election. At the next two federal party conventions of the Democrats in 1948 and 1952 he was a substitute delegate.

In 1945, Collins was initially defeated in his party's primary election for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. After an election challenge, he was able to win the nomination. He was then elected lieutenant governor at the side of William M. Tuck . He held this office after a re-election between 1946 and his death in 1952. He was deputy to Governor Tuck and his successor John S. Battle . He also acted as chairman of the state senate . On September 20, 1952, he suffered a heart attack during a school event at which he was supposed to give a speech, from which he died. He was buried in Marion.

Web links

• Lewis Preston Collins in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard