Allen J. Furlow

Allen J. Furlow

Allen John Furlow (born November 9, 1890 in Rochester , Minnesota , †  January 29, 1954 ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1929 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Allen Furlow attended public schools in his home country. In 1910 he graduated from Rochester High School . During the First World War he was a first lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps . After completing a law degree at George Washington University in Washington, DC and being admitted to the bar in 1920, he began to work in his new profession in Rochester.

Politically, Furlow became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1923 and 1925 he was a member of the Minnesota Senate . In the 1924 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Minnesota, where he succeeded Sydney Anderson on March 4, 1925 . After re-election in 1926, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1929 . In the elections of 1928, he was no longer nominated by his party for another term.

After serving in the US House of Representatives, Furlow worked in the legal department of the Washington-based Curtiss-Wright Corporation between 1929 and 1930 . He then worked initially for the Ministry of Justice and then from 1934 to 1937 in the legal department of the Veterans Office. He then returned to Rochester, where he worked as a lawyer until his death.

Web links

• Allen J. Furlow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Allen J. Furlow in the database of Find a Grave (English)