Heman Allen (Vermont politician)

This article is about the politician from Milton, Vermont. For other people, see Heman Allen (disambiguation).

Heman Allen
From Volume II of 1905's Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1839
Preceded byBenjamin Swift
Succeeded byJohn Smith
Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
In office
1810–1814
1816-1817
1822
1824–1826
Personal details
Born(1777-06-14)June 14, 1777
Ashfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedDecember 11, 1844(1844-12-11) (aged 67)
Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Political partyAnti-Jacksonian
Whig
SpouseSarah Ann "Sally" Prentis Allen
Children8
ProfessionPolitician, Lawyer

Heman Allen (June 14, 1777 – December 11, 1844) was an American lawyer and politician from Milton, Vermont. He served as a U.S. Representative.

Biography

Allen was born in Ashfield (now Deerfield, Massachusetts) to Enoch Allen and Mercy Belding Allen. He attended an academy in Chesterfield, New Hampshire for two years before moving to Grand Isle, Vermont.

He read law with Elnathan Keyes of Burlington and Bates Turner of St. Albans. Allen was admitted to the bar in 1803.[1] He began the practice of law in Milton, and was the first resident lawyer in Milton.[2]

Allen served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1810 to 1814, 1816 to 1817, 1822, and 1824 to 1826.[3] He moved to Burlington in 1828 and continued the practice of law.

He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third and the Twenty-fourth Congresses March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1837).[4] He was elected as a Whig candidate to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, until March 3, 1839.[5]

While in Congress, Allen served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury during the Twenty-third through Twenty-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress. After leaving Congress, Allen resumed the practice of law. He was a director of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.[6]

Personal life

Allen married Sarah Ann "Sally" Prentis Allen on December 4, 1804. They had eight children; Heman Jr., Lucius, George, Sarah, Charles Prentis, Joseph William, Julia, and James Heman.

Allen was the distant cousin of Heman Allen (of Colchester), United States Representative from Colchester, Vermont and America's first United States Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile.[7][8]

Death

Allen died in Burlington on December 11, 1844, and is interred at the Elmwood Avenue Cemetery in Burlington.

References

  1. ^ Vermont History. 1921. p. 81.
  2. ^ Duffy, John J. (2003). The Vermont Encyclopedia. UPNE. p. 38. ISBN 9781584650867.
  3. ^ "Allen, Heman, of Milton (1777-1844)". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  4. ^ "ALLEN, Heman (of Milton), (1777 - 1844)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  5. ^ "Rep. Heman "of Milton" Allen". Govtrack.us. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  6. ^ "Allen, H. (Heman), 1777-1844". New York State Library. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  7. ^ Duffy, John J. (2003). The Vermont Encyclopedia. UPNE. p. 38. ISBN 9781584650867.
  8. ^ "ALLEN, Heman (of Colchester), (1779 - 1852)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 7, 2012.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Vermont's 4th congressional district
4 March 1831–3 March 1839 		Succeeded by