Sam L. Collins

LaFort Samuel "Sam" Collins ( born August 6, 1895 in Fortville, Hancock County, Indiana, † June 26, 1965 in Fullerton, California ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sam Collins attended the public schools in Indiana and California. In 1915 he graduated from Chaffey Union High School in Ontario ( California). During a border dispute with Mexico he served in 1916 with the California National Guard medical service ( hospital corps ) on the Mexican border. In World War Collins was 1917-1919 sergeant in an infantry unit of the U.S. Army. He was active in the war effort. After a subsequent law degree in 1921 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Fullerton to work in this profession. Between 1926 and 1932 he was first deputy until 1930 and thereafter regular district attorney in Orange County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Collins was in the then newly established 19th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During this time, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which, however, Collins ' party faced a rather negative. In 1936, he defeated Democrat Harry R. Sheppard.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Collins practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1940 and 1952 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly, which he was president since 1947. He died on June 26, 1965 in Fullerton.