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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriThomas ALLEN
(1813-1882)
ALLEN, Thomas, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Pittsfield, Mass., August 29,
1813; attended Pittsfield Academy and Berkshire Gymnasium; was
graduated from Union College in 1832; studied law in New York City;
was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in New York
City in 1832; moved to Washington, D.C., and established the
Madisonian in 1837; printer to the House of Representatives
1837-1839; printer to the United States Senate 1839-1842; moved to
St. Louis, Mo., in 1842; member of the State senate 1850-1854; was
a contractor upon internal improvements and projected and built
more than 1,000 miles of railway; in 1852 took the first steam
locomotive across the Mississippi River; president of the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, but subsequently sold
all his railway interests and retired from active pursuits; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress and served from March
4, 1881, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 8, 1882;
interment in Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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