Charles Allen | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's5th district | |
| In office March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Hudson |
| Succeeded by | William Appleton |
| Member of theMassachusetts Senate | |
| In office 1836-1837 | |
| Member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives | |
| In office 1830, 1833, 1835, 1840 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 9, 1797 |
| Died | August 6, 1869 (aged 71) |
| Political party | Free Soil Republican |
| Alma mater | Yale College(A.M.) Harvard Law School(LL.D.) |
| Occupation | Politician,lawyer,judge |
Charles Allen (August 9, 1797 – August 6, 1869) was aUnited States representative fromMassachusetts.
He was born inWorcester, Massachusetts, on August 9, 1797,[1] the son ofJoseph Allen and grandnephew ofSamuel Adams).[2] Allen attendedLeicester Academy (1809–1811) andYale College (1811–1812) and studied law.[2] He was admitted to the bar in 1821[1] and commenced practice inNew Braintree.[2] He returned to Worcester in 1824 and continued the practice of law.[2] On October 23, 1827, he was elected a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society.[3]
Allen was a member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives in 1830, 1833, 1835, and 1840; he also served in theMassachusetts State Senate in 1836 and 1837.[2] In 1842, he was a member of theMaine-New Brunswick boundary commission created by theWebster–Ashburton Treaty that ended theAroostook War.[1] He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1842 to 1845 and a delegate to the1848 Whig National Convention inPhiladelphia.[2] He was twice elected to Congress as aFree-Soil Party candidate (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853), but did not seek renomination in 1852.[1] In 1849 he edited the BostonWhig, later called theRepublican.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Worcester.[2] He was a member of the state'sconstitutional convention in 1853, and was chief justice of theSuffolk County Superior Court from 1858 to 1867.[1]
He received the honorary degree ofA.M. fromYale in 1836 and that ofLL.D. fromHarvard in 1863.[1] He was a delegate to thePeace Conference of 1861[1] held inWashington, D.C. to try to prevent the start of theCivil War.
Charles Allen died in Worcester, Massachusetts, on August 6, 1869.[1] He was interred in theRural Cemetery.[2]
The home on which he began construction, theCharles Allen House, was completed by his descendants and was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1980.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Charles".The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 80.| U.S. House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's 5th congressional district March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853 | Succeeded by |
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