Heman Allen (politician, 1777)

Heman Allen (born June 14, 1777 in Deerfield , Franklin County , Massachusetts , † December 11, 1844 in Burlington , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1839 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Heman Allen studied for two years at a school in Chesterfield ( New Hampshire ). He then moved to Grand Isle , Vermont. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1803, he began his new profession in Milton .

Allen was also active in politics. Between 1810 and 1826 he was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives several times, with a few interruptions . In 1828 he moved his residence and legal practice to Burlington. After the reorganization of the American political landscape in the 1820s, Allen joined first the short-lived National Republican Party and then the Whigs , both of which were in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . In 1830 , Allen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington as the National Republican candidate for the fourth district of Vermont . There he took over from Benjamin Swift on March 4, 1831 . Since he was confirmed in the following congressional elections, Allen was able to complete a total of four legislative periods in Congress until March 3, 1839 . In his last term, which began March 4, 1837, he was an official member of the Whigs. Between 1833 and 1839, Allen chaired the Treasury Department's Expenditure Control Committee. Early in his time in Congress, he saw the heated debates surrounding President Jackson's policies. Among other things, it was about his plan to break up the Bundesbank and the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina . In 1838 Allen was defeated by the Democrat John Smith .

After his tenure in Congress, Allen retired from politics and returned to working as a lawyer in Burlington. He died there in December 1844. Heman Allen is not to be confused with Heman Allen , who was a congressman from Vermont between 1817 and 1818. There is no evidence of any relationship between these two politicians.

Web links

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

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