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'''Ashton Blanchard Collier''' (February 1, 1910 – November 22, 1973)<ref>Ashton Blanchard Collier (1910-1973) - Find a Grave Memorial, accessed June 10, 2022.</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the [[Louisiana]] House of Representatives]] from Atlanta in Winn Parish. 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.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=October 31, 2009}}</ref>
'''Ashton Blanchard Collier''' (February 1, 1910 – November 22, 1973)<ref>Ashton Blanchard Collier (1910-1973) - Find a Grave Memorial, accessed June 10, 2022.</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the [[Louisiana]] House of Representatives from Atlanta in Winn Parish. 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.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=October 31, 2009}}</ref>
Allied with [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|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.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' December 7, 1959, p. 2-A.</ref>
Allied with [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|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.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' December 7, 1959, p. 2-A.</ref>