Vinson Allen Collins
Vinson Allen Collins was a Texas politician.
Early life and education
Vinson Allen Collins was born in Hardin County, Texas near Honey Island on March 1, 1867. He was the seventh child of Warren Collins and Eboline Valentine Collins. The Collins family had moved to Texas from Mississippi in 1854.He graduated from Sam Houston State Normal College in 1893.
Career
He started his career as a schoolteacher in Big Sandy [Independent School District (Polk County, Texas)|Big Sandy Independent School District in Polk County, 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 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, Sr. In 1924, his campaign for Governor of Texas against Felix D. Robertson and Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson was unsuccessful and Ferguson was elected.
He was a supporter of Prohibition in [the United States|prohibition] and of women’s suffrage.