Family
His son, LeRoy Collins, Jr., a retired United States Navy rear admiral, unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate from Florida in 2006, losing to Congresswoman Katherine Harris, who was in turn defeated by Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson.
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“I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.”
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