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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsSamuel Clesson ALLEN
(1772-1842)
ALLEN, Samuel Clesson,
(father of Elisha Hunt Allen), a Representative from Massachusetts;
born in Bernardston, Mass., January 5, 1772; attended the public
schools of New Salem, and was graduated from Dartmouth College,
Hanover, N.H., in 1794; studied theology; was ordained as a
minister, became pastor of the Congregational Church in Northfield
in 1795, and served until 1798; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1800 and practiced in New Salem; member of the State house
of representatives 1806-1810; served in the State senate 1812-1815;
elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth through the Seventeenth
Congresses, as an Adams-Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress,
and as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March
4, 1817-March 3, 1829); chairman, Committee on Accounts
(Seventeenth through Twentieth Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1828; member of the Governor’s executive
council of Massachusetts 1829-1830; again elected to the State
senate in 1831; retired from politics; engaged as a lecturer at
Amherst College; member of the board of trustees of Amherst College
and of the University of Vermont; died in Northfield, Mass.,
February 8, 1842; interment in the Village Cemetery, Bernardston,
Franklin County, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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