Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen

Clifford Robertson Allen (born January 6, 1912 in Jacksonville , Florida , †  June 18, 1978 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1975 and 1978 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clifford Allen attended Friends Elementary and High School in the federal capital, Washington . After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission as a lawyer in 1931, he began to work in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1949 and 1951 and again from 1955 to 1959 he sat in the Tennessee Senate . In 1950, 1952 and 1956 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Tennessee. Between 1960 and 1975, Allen was a Davidson County property tax assessor . In 1970 he was President of the International Association of Assessing Officers . A year later he held the same position for their regional association in Tennessee. Also in 1971, Allen served in a convention designed to revise the Tennessee Constitution.

After the resignation of MP Richard H. Fulton , Allen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the due by-election for the fifth seat of Tennessee, where he took up his new mandate on November 25, 1975. After he was re-elected in the 1976 regular elections , he could remain in Congress until his death on June 18, 1978 .

Web links

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

• Clifford Allen in the database of Find a Grave (English)