Benjamin Collings (born 1976) is an American politician from Maine. Collings,a Democrat was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives (District 42) in 2016. A political and business consultant,Collings has worked on various campaigns including most notably as the state director for Bernie Sanders in 2016. He successfully sponsored a bill to rename Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day.[1]
Collings grew up in Fort Kent,Maine and earned a social science degree from the University of Maine at Fort Kent.[2] In June 2023 Collings offered an amendment to a Democrat led bill to expand abortion rights in Maine that would limit the legality of post-viability abortions for reasons of lethal fetal anomalies and to protect the mother’s health.[3] For the final house vote to expand abortion access,Collings was absence.[4]
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