resting_place succeeded death_place death_date religion birth_place children party office preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
atlanta cemetery in atlanta , louisiana p.k. smith william p. floyd harper terrill winnfield , louisiana 22 november 1973 baptist louisiana , usa l. r. collier , m.d. democrat louisiana assessor state representative from winn parish winn parish tax j. mont breedlove p.k. smith john bell 1 february 1910 1956 1964 june 1 , 1970 ida j. collier ashton b. collier
 1960 june 1970 december 3 , 1970 ashton b. collier unspecified in obituary
ashton b. collier

ashton b. collier -lrb- february 1 , 1910 -- november 22 , 1973 -rrb- was a democratic member of the louisiana house of representatives from atlanta in winn parish , louisiana .
he served interrupted terms from 1956 to 1960 and again from 1964 to 1970 , when he resigned in the middle of his third term to become , briefly , the winn parish tax assessor .
allied with governor earl kemp long , collier unseated representative j. mont breedlove in the 1956 primary election for the legislative seat , 3,157 to 3,075 votes .
he did not seek reelection in 1959 but instead ran unsuccessfully in a runoff election for sheriff of winn parish against sanford jordan .
collier returned to the legislature with a decisive victory in 1964 .
in 1967 , he was pitted in a reconfigured district with representative sam wilbanks of neighboring lasalle parish .
collier won that exchange too , 6,958 to 4,253 in the first primary .
in 1970 , collier resigned from the state house to become tax assessor but served in that position only for five months .
collier died from complications from brain surgery at winnfield general hospital in the parish seat of winnfield .
he was survived by his wife , ida j. collier ; a son , l. r. collier , m.d. , of winnfield , and two grandchildren .
he was a member of the atlanta baptist church .
collier is interred at the atlanta cemetery .
p.k. smith , later a prominent automobile dealer from winnfield , held the winn parish house seat from 1960 to 1964 .
collier 's term was completed by dr. william p. floyd , the winner of a special election in 1970 .
