A. Leonard Allen

A. Leonard Allen

Asa Leonard Allen (born January 5, 1891 in Winnfield , Louisiana , †  January 5, 1969 there ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1953 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Leonard Allen attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1914 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . He then worked as a teacher himself for a few years. Between 1914 and 1915 he taught at Georgetown High School and then until 1917 at Verda High School . From 1917 to 1922 he was a school councilor at Winn Parish . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1922, he began to work in Winnfield in this profession. There he also worked as a city lawyer for several years.

Politically, Allen was a member of the Democratic Party . In June 1936 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , at which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the second time as a candidate for president. In the 1936 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eighth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Cleveland Dear , who was no longer running, on January 3, 1937 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1953 . During this time the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War fell . Between 1943 and 1947, Allen was chairman of the Committee on Census .

In 1952, Allen declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he retired from politics and public life. He died on January 5, 1969, his 78th birthday, and was buried in Winnfield.

Web links

• A. Leonard Allen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• A. Leonard Allen in the database of Find a Grave (English)