Charles Herbert Allen

Charles Herbert Allen

Charles Herbert Allen (born April 15, 1848 in Lowell , Massachusetts , † April 20, 1934 there ) was an American politician and artist.

After graduating from Amherst College in 1869, he worked in his father Otis Allen's lumber mill. The following year he married Harriet C. Dean of Manchester, New Hampshire , with whom he had two children. He later became a curator of Amherst College and received an LLD degree in 1900 .

Allen's political career began on the Lowell School Committee, where he initiated night school. From 1881 to 1882 he sat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives , and in 1883 he was a member of the State Senate . As a representative of the Republicans , he was from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889 member of the US House of Representatives in the 49th and 50th Congress . In the election to governor of Massachusetts in 1890, he failed to William Russell .

In 1884 he received the title of "Colonel" when Governor George D. Robinson accepted him into his personal staff. Allen's friends always addressed him with this title. Allen served as the Massachusetts Prison Commissioner from 1897 to 1898.

In 1898 US President William McKinley appointed him Deputy Secretary of the Navy when Theodore Roosevelt resigned to go to the Spanish-American War . All held the office until 1900. After the war ended, McKinley appointed him the first civilian governor of Puerto Rico . When Allan's retirement from office, the island's government was debt free and in control of one million dollars.

Allan returned to Lowell and developed an interest in banks and other businesses. He has held several positions on the board of directors of banks and businesses in Lowell and New York . He was also Vice President of Morton Trust Co. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York, and President of American Sugar Refining Company .

Twenty-seven landscape and marine paintings by Allen are in the collection of the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell. His house is now on the south campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Web links

• Charles Herbert Allen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)