Robert G. Allen

Robert Gray Allen ( born August 24, 1902 in Winchester, Massachusetts; † August 9, 1963 in Keene, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1941 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1906, Robert Allen was still a child to Minneapolis in Minnesota, where he later both public and private schools attended. In 1922, he graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover. He later studied at Harvard University. In 1929 he moved to Greensburg in Pennsylvania, where he sold to 1937 valves and fittings. Between 1935 and 1936 he also served as District Manager of the Works Progress Administration. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1936, Allen was the 28th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William M. Berlin on January 3, 1937. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1941 two legislative sessions. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. In 1940, Allen gave up another Congress candidate.

During the Second World War he served in the Ordnance Branch of the U.S. Army, where he rose to lieutenant colonel. In the following years he worked in the private sector. He was a board member, vice - president and president of several companies. Among other things, he was also director of the First Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee. In 1962, he withdrew into retirement. Robert Allen died on August 9, 1963 in Keene, where he was also buried.