University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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governor Florida ' s newly elected governor, LeRoy Collins, has demonstrated his outstanding leadership and ability to gain the respect of others many times during his legislative career. His record, personality and ability are well and favorably known through- out Florida. Collins, a native Floridian, was born in Tallahassee in 1909. In 1934, 1936 and 1938, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives. In 1942 he ran unopposed for the State Senate. In 1950, he stood for election to the Senate for the third time against two other candidates and won, receiving 74 per cent of the total vote. The father of four children, Collins has always taken an interest in the state school system. As a senator, he steered through Florida ' s famous education bill of 1947, which was the greatest forward step ever taken in the school system of this state. LeRoy Collins assumed his duties as Florida ' s chief executive in January. From his outstanding record and overwhelming popularity, there is every indication that he will be an excellent successor to the highly-regarded Dan McCarty . . . and a splen- did governor in his own right. 18