Born in
Chesterfield, Massachusetts, Higgins attended the public schools of Chesterfield and
Northampton and
Deerfield Academy. He graduated from the medical department of the
University of the City of New York in 1890 and commenced the practice of medicine in
Willington, Connecticut, the same year. He moved to
South Coventry, Connecticut, in 1891. Higgins served in the
Connecticut House of Representatives 1905–1907, 1917, 1919–1921, and 1925–1927. He served as member of the
State Senate from 1909–1911. He was the first selectman of Coventry, Connecticut, from 1917–1932. He was the county commissioner of
Tolland County, Connecticut, from 1921–1932. He served as Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1929–1933. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Conventions of 1928, 1932, and 1936. Higgins was elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth US Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the
Seventy-fifth Congress. After exiting politics, he resumed the practice of medicine in Coventry. He died in
Norwich, Connecticut, on . His remains were cremated and interred in Chesterfield Center Cemetery in Chesterfield. ==References==