Q:Facts: - preceded: bill ford george w. crockett , jr. . - term: january 3 , 1997 january 3 , 1991 & nbsp ; 3 -- january 3 , 1993 , 1993 & nbsp ; -- january - party: democrat - district: 15th 13th - succeeded: carolyn cheeks kilpatrick bill ford - birth date: 13 april 1939 - state: michigan michigan - name: barbara-rose collins - birth place: detroit , michigan Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of barbara-rose collins .
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barbara-rose collins -lrb- born april 13 , 1939 -rrb- is a politician from the u.s. state of michigan .collins was born in detroit , michigan , graduated from the public schools there and attended wayne state university as an anthropology major .she was a member of the detroit region i public school board , 1971 -- 1973 ; a member of the michigan state house of representatives , from the 21st district , 1975 -- 1981 ; and a member of the detroit city council , 1982 -- 1991 .in 1988 , she lost a primary election to the incumbent u.s. representative for what was then michigan 's 13th congressional district , george w. crockett , jr. .crockett did n't run for reelection in 1990 , and collins won a crowded eight-way democratic primary with 34 percent of the vote .this was tantamount to election in this heavily democratic , black-majority district .she won handily in november and was reelected three more times , each time garnering over 80 percent of the vote .her district was renumbered as the 15th district after the 1990 census .in 1996 , collins was routed in the democratic primary by state representative carolyn kilpatrick , taking only 30.6 percent of the vote .after five years out of politics , collins returned to the detroit city council for two terms , retiring in 2009 .