Robert Edward Lee Allen

Robert Edward Lee Allen (born November 28, 1865 in Lima , Tyler County , West Virginia , † January 28, 1951 in Mountain Lake Park , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the second constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Allen attended the common schools, the Fairmont Normal School and the Peabody College in Nashville ( Tennessee ). He then studied law, among other things, at the University of West Virginia in Morgantown until 1895 . After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began working in his new profession in Morgantown.

Allen was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1895 and 1917 he was a member of the Morgantown City Council. From 1917 and 1921 he served as the assistant chief of the federal tax department for West Virginia. He was then city judge for two years until 1923. In 1922, Allen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the Second District of West Virginia , where he succeeded Republican George M. Bowers on March 4, 1923 . But since he was defeated by Republican Frank L. Bowman in the next elections in 1924 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1925 .

In 1926, Allen competed unsuccessfully for his return to the US House of Representatives. He then worked as a lawyer again until 1927. He then moved to Preston County in West Virginia. Between 1929 and 1939 he was in the tourism industry, running a summer vacation business in Brookside . He spent his twilight years in Aurora, West Virginia. Robert Allen died in Maryland in 1951 and was buried in Kingwood .

Web links

• Robert Edward Lee Allen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Edward Lee Allen in the database of Find a Grave (English)