California State Officials Biographies 1911 RICHARD E. COLLINS Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION RICHARD E. COLLINS (Republican) was born in the town of Weaverville, Trinity County, California, March 28, 1873, and educated in the public schools of that section; he is a miner by occupation, with residence at Redding, Shasta County; in 1902 he was elected Assessor of Shasta County, and elected Member of the State Board of Equalization for the Third District, November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; was reelected to the same office in 1910 as the nominee of the Republican and Democratic parties. Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911 Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913