William Allen (politician, 1827)

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William Allen

William Allen (born August 13, 1827 in Hamilton , Ohio , † July 6, 1881 in Greenville , Ohio) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Allen attended the public schools in his home country and then worked as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1849, he began to work in this profession from 1850 in Greenville. Between 1850 and 1854 he served as the prosecutor in Darke County . Politically, he initially joined the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1858 Allen was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Matthias H. Nichols on March 4, 1859 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1863 . These were shaped by the events before and at the beginning of the civil war . As of 1861, Allen was chairman of the Home Office's Expenditure Control Committee. In 1862 he renounced another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Allen practiced again as a lawyer. He also went into banking in the following years. In 1865 he switched to the Republican Party . In the same year he became an appellate judge in the second judicial district of his state. In 1878 he rejected the proposed Republican nomination for the congressional elections for health reasons. He died on July 6, 1881 in Greenville, where he was also buried.

According to him, Allen County named in Ohio.

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