When Chess Coleman Collins was born on 5 March 1906, in Jasper, Walker, Alabama, United States, his father, Jasper Logan Collins, was 57 and his mother, Texanna Boshell, was 34. He married Lillian Gertrude Jones on 1 January 1932, in Marshall, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 1 Guntersville, Marshall, Alabama, United States in 1950. He died on 26 January 1963, in Guntersville, Marshall, Alabama, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Rehobeth Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Guntersville, Marshall, Alabama, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: variant of Colin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized from Ó Coileáin, compare Cullen , or in Man or west Ulster shortened from Mac Coileáin, compare McQuillan and McCallion . The genitival -s is a local addition to Collin and variants after the surname was Anglicized.
Americanized form of French Colin or Collin and also Collette .
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