Collins, Leila

Leila Collins was elected County Treasurer for Coleman County, Texas in 1916. She was appointed to the position in 1918, and elected to the position in 1920. Collins divorced her husband with whom she had four children some time before 1920, and remarried in the early 1920s. The need for financial income may have contributed to her run for political office. She lived to be 107 years old.