Heman Allen (politician, 1779)

Heman Allen

Heman Allen (born February 23, 1779 in Poultney , Republic of Vermont , †  April 7, 1852 in Highgate , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1818 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives and from 1824 to 1827 he was the United States Ambassador to Chile .

Life

Heman Allen attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1795 at Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1801, he began working in his new profession in Colchester . Between 1808 and 1809 he was sheriff's chief of police in Chittenden County . From 1811 to 1814 he was presiding judge at the local district court.

Everyone belonged to the Democratic Republican Party . Between 1812 and 1817 he was an MP in the Vermont House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1816 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of Vermont . There he took over from the federalist Asa Lyon on March 4, 1817 . Allen only exercised his mandate in Congress until his resignation on April 20, 1818. He was then US Marshal for the Vermont District from 1818 to 1823 .

Then Allen was appointed US ambassador to the recently independent state of Chile by President James Monroe . He held this office between January 27, 1823 and July 31, 1827. From 1830, Allen was head of the Bundesbank branch in Burlington . He remained there until the bank was liquidated in 1836 by President Andrew Jackson . Heman Allen then worked as a lawyer in Highgate, where he died in 1852.

Web links

• Heman Allen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Heman Allen in the database of Find a Grave (English)