Samuel Collins

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Collins was born and raised in Caribou, Maine and worked as a youth on a potato farm. He was the oldest of four sons to Samuel Wilson Collins and Elizabeth Black Collins. Collins graduated from Caribou High School and attended the University of Maine. He graduated in three years and worked during World War II in the War Department in Arlington, Virginia doing army intelligence work.

After the war ended, Collins attended and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1947. An active Unitarian-Universalist, Collins served as president of the Universalist Churches of Maine and president of the Northeast District of the Universalist/Unitarian Association. He was the uncle of the U.S. Senator of Maine Susan Collins.