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Succeeded by
  
Margaret Lowenthal

Role
  
Financier

Name
  
Harry Hollins


Spouse(s)
  
Married

Political party
  
Parents
  
Francis Hollins

Preceded by
  
Two-member district:James M. "Jim" BrownJesse Monroe Knowles

Born
  
August 25, 1932Place of birth missing (
1932-08-25
)

Resting place
  
Orange Grove Cemetery inLake Charles, Louisiana

Residence
  
Lake Charles, Louisiana

Died
  
February 24, 1938, New York City, New York, United States

Children
  
Marion Hollins, H. B. Hollins, Jr.

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Harry Muth Hollins (August 25, 1932 – June 29, 1989) was a four-term Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. His tenure extended from 1964 to 1980 during the administrations of Governors John McKeithen and Edwin Edwards.

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In 1970, Hollins sponsored the legislation which created the Sabine River water diversion project. In 1978, he chaired a legislative committee which investigated state Insurance commissioner Sherman A. Bernard. In 1993, Bernard confessed to having extorted during the 1980s $80,000, disguised as campaign contributions, from insurance companies in return for obtaining operating licenses in Louisiana.

After his legislative years, Hollins headed the Louisiana Real Estate Commission and the Louisiana Racing Commission. Though a Democrat, Hollins in 1986 was a donor to the unsuccessful Republican campaign to elect U.S. Representative Henson Moore of Baton Rouge to the United States Senate to succeed Russell B. Long.

Hollins died at the age of fifty-six. He is interred at Orange Grove Cemetery in Lake Charles. Hollins' extensive archival materials are located at McNeese State University in Lake Charles.

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