Background
Collins was born in Hallsville in Harrison County in East Texas.
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Education
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas. Collins graduated thereafter from Southern Methodist University in University Park (a part of Dallas) and from Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Career
The district was based at the time about Irving in Dallas County. In 1989, Collins was inducted into the Woodrow Wilson High School Hall of Fame the same year it was created in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the institution. Collins then entered the United States Army, having served as a lieutenant in the Third Army of General George South. Patton, Junior., during the Battle of the Bulge in World World War World War II Collins was first elected to the United States. House in a special election caused by the death in 1968 of Democratic United States. Representative Joe R. Pool.
In the general election that fall, he received 81,696 votes (594 percent) to 55,939 (406 percent) for Democrat Robert H. Hughes.
His victory was part of a strong trend toward the Grand Old Party in north Dallas. This district has been in Republican hands without interruption since then
Barbara Staff, later one of the three co-chairmen in Texas for the Ronald West. Reagan challenge to United States. President Gerald R. Ford, Junior. in the 1976 Republican presidential primary, worked in Collins" campaigns and in the congressional office for a time. At sixty-six in 1982, Collins relinquished his House seat to challenge the entrenched Texas Democratic United States. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, of Houston, at sixty-one a political icon in Texas.
As a state senator, Mengden had been an advocate of instituting the initiative and referendum in Texas, two reforms never implemented.
Collins polled 152,469 (58 percent) in the primary to Mengden"s 91,780 (349 percent). A third contender received 7.1 percent of the vote. Collins subsequently lost the general election by a large margin.
Bentsen polled 1,818,223 (586 percent) to Collins" 1,256,759 (405 percent).
Achievements
Politics
As the president of the Council of Republican Women"s Clubs of Dallas County, she had launched a successful membership program known as "I Believe" and was known in particular for her conservative political views and organizational skills. The 1982 elections ended the political careers of both Mengden and Collins, but they represented a triumph for Lloyd Bentsen, who led his party to victory in all statewide races that year, including judgeships, the last year thus far that Democrats have swept all statewide races, including judgeships, in Texas.
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Political Party
Republican party