Francis Dolan Collins

Francis Dolan Collins ( born March 5, 1841 in Saugerties, Ulster County, New York, † November 21, 1891 in Scranton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Collins attended St. Joseph 's College, near Montrose, Pennsylvania and then the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston. After a subsequent law degree in 1866 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Scranton in this profession. In 1869 he was elected district attorney. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1872 to 1874 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Collins was the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Brutzman Storm on March 4, 1875. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Collins practiced as a lawyer again. He died on November 21, 1891 in Scranton, where he was also buried.