Background
Vinson Allen Collins was born in Hardin County, Texas near Honey Island on March 1, 1867.
lawyer politician member of the Texas Senate
Vinson Allen Collins was born in Hardin County, Texas near Honey Island on March 1, 1867.
He graduated from Sam Houston State Normal College (now part of Sam Houston State University) in 1893.
He was the seventh child of Warren Collins and Eboline Valentine Collins. The Collins family had moved to Texas from Mississippi in 1854. He started his career as a schoolteacher in Grand Saline, Texas while studying the Law.
He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1901 and opened a law practice in Beaumont, Texas.
He served three terms in the Texas Senate (1910-1914, 1916-1917) as a Democrat. He sponsored the law that established a workers" compensation system in Texas and established the Texas Industrial Accident Board, and the law restricting work to eight hours a day.
In a race for the United States House of Representatives, he was defeated by Martin Dies, Senior In 1924, his campaign for Governor of Texas against Felix Doctorate. Robertson and Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson was unsuccessful and Ferguson was elected.
He was a supporter of prohibition and of women's suffrage.
He died in Dallas, Texas on July 5, 1966 and is buried in Livingston, Texas.
