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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | James M. Collins |
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Dallas, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 29, 1916
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| Died | July 21, 1989
(73 years)
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| Contributor | User 490 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | born in Hallsville, Dallas County, Tex., April 29, 1916; attended high school in Dallas, Tex.; Southern Methodist University, B.S.C., 1937; Northwestern University, M.B.A., 1938; American College, C.L.U. degree in life insurance, 1940; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1943; three and one-half years in the United States Army; completed service as captain, United States Army Engineers; one and one-half years in the European Theater from Omaha Beach through France, Belgium, and Germany; president: Consolidated Industries, Inc., 1954-1968, International Industries, Inc., 1961-1968, All Products Co., 1965-1968, Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co., 1954-1965, president: Pacific Industries, 1983-1989; White House Conference on Youth, regional chairman, 1955; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress, by special election, August 24, 1968, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R. Pool; reelected to seven succeeding Congresses and served from August 24, 1968, to January 3, 1983; was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate; was a resident of Dallas, Tex., until his death there on July 21, 1989.
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