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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioWilliam ALLEN
(1803-1879)
Senate Years of Service:
1837-1849Party: DemocratALLEN, William, a
Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., December 18 or December 27, 1803; moved to Lynchburg,
Va., and attended private schools; moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in
1819; attended Chillicothe Academy; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Chillicothe; elected as a
Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in January 1837; reelected in
1843, and served from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1849; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1849; chairman, Committee on Foreign
Relations (Twenty-ninth Congress); retired to his estate,
“Fruit Hill,” near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and
engaged in farming and stock raising; Governor of Ohio 1874-1876;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1875; resumed agricultural
pursuits; died at “Fruit Hill,” July 11, 1879;
interment in Grand View Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; McGrane, Reginald C. William Allen: A Study in
Western Democracy. Columbus: Ohio State Archeological and
Historical Society, 1925.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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