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COLLIER, Henry Watkins, jurist, born in Lun-enburg county, Virginia, 17 January, 180'1; died at Bailey's Springs, Lauderdale County, Alabama, 28 August, 1855. He was educated in the Abbeville district, South Carolina, where his father settled in 1801. removed with the family to Madison county, Alabama, in 1818, and studied law at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and at Huntsville, Alabama, where he was admitted to the bar and began practice. In 1823 he settled in Tuscaloosa, where he was elected district judge in 1827. In 1836 he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, in 183:7 was made chief justice, and held that office till 1849, when he was elected, without opposition, governor of the state. His support was sought both by the southern rights and the Union party; but he favored neither side of the question that then agitated the southern states, and in 1851 was re-nominated and elected without a regular nomination. When his second term expired he retired to private life.
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