John Mills Allen

John Mills Allen (born July 8, 1846 in Tishomingo County , Mississippi , † October 30, 1917 in Tupelo , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1901 he represented the first constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Allen attended public schools in his home country. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the army of the Confederate States . After the war he studied law at Cumberland University in Lebanon ( Tennessee ). He then continued this study until 1870 at the University of Mississippi . After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to work in his new profession in Tupelo.

Between 1875 and 1879, Allen was a district attorney for the Mississippi First District Attorney. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party , as whose candidate he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1884 in the first district of his state . There he replaced Henry L. Muldrow on March 4, 1875 . After he was confirmed in office in the following seven congressional elections, John Allen was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1901. He was from 1891 to 1893 chairman of the committee for the control of the Department of Justice and between 1893 and 1895 member of the committee for the improvement of the levees along the Mississippi . In 1900 he renounced another candidacy for Congress.

In 1901, Allen was appointed federal commissioner for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis . He then worked again as a lawyer in Tupelo, where he died in 1917.

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SURNAME	Allen, John Mills
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 8, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tishomingo County , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1917
Place of death	Tupelo , Mississippi