Ross A. Collins

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 was the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ross Collins attended the public schools in Meridian and then the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. Then he studied until 1900 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. After a final law degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began in Meridian to work in his new profession.

Collins was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1912 and 1920 he was Attorney General of the State of Mississippi. In 1919 he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship. In the congressional elections of 1920, he was elected in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he replaced William W. Venable on March 4, 1921. After he was confirmed in each case in the following six congressional elections, Collins could remain until January 3, 1935 at the Congress. In 1934 he renounced his candidacy in favor of an unsuccessful bid then within his party for whose nomination to the U.S. Senate.

In the 1936 elections Collins ran successfully again for his old seat in the House of Representatives. After he was re-elected in 1938 and 1940 respectively, he was able to complete in 1943 three other legislative periods in Congress until January 3. 1941 failed another attempt to win a seat in the Senate. In the 1942 elections Collins opted not to run again for the House of Representatives. Instead, he sought again unsuccessful at his party's nomination for the Senate. After retiring from Congress Collins again worked as a lawyer. He has held no other political offices more.