James Collier

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

Career

After primary school, James Collier studied until 1894 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Vicksburg.

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

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