Researching Randolph Collier
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 10010 people with the Collier surname? In that year Collier was ranked number 410 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Randolph means "wolf-shield" and is of English origin.
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Randolph Collier
Randolph Collier (July 26, 1902 – August 2, 1983) was a member of the California State Senate. He was Senator from the Second District from 1939 to 1967, and from the First District from 1967 to 1976. Initially a member of the Republican Party, he moved to the Democratic Party in 1959.
Collier served as chairman of the California Senate Transportation Committee and was the sponsor and co-author of the Collier–Burns Highway Act of 1947, which established the California transportation infrastructure. He was chairman of the Senate Interim Committee on Highways, Streets and Bridges. Collier was an opponent of rapid transit. A rest stop in Siskiyou County, where he lived nearly all of his life, is named after him, as is a tunnel on the Redwood Highway, U.S. Route 199.
In 1976, Collier was defeated for re-election by former state Assemblyman Ray E. Johnson and moved to Sacramento, where he spent the remainder of his life until dying of chronic pulmonary obstruction at the age of 81.
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