Ela Collins

Ela Collins ( born February 14, 1786 in Meriden, Connecticut, † November 23, 1848 in Lowville, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman William Collins was his son.

Career

Ela Collins was born about two and a half years after the end of the American Revolutionary War in New Haven County. He attended Clinton Academy. Collins studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1807, he began to practice in Lowville. He sat 1815 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1815 and 1818, he was district attorney of the counties of Lewis, Jefferson and St. Lawrence, as well as from 11 June 1818 to 24 March in 1840 by Lewis County. He took 1821 as a delegate part in the Constituent Assembly of New York.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Collins was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David Woodcock and William B. Rochester on March 4, 1823. He retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

After his time Congress he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He died on November 23, 1848 in Lowville in Lewis County and was then buried in the Jackson Street Cemetery.