Samuel Clesson Allen

Clesson Samuel Allen ( born January 5, 1772 in Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † February 8, 1842 in Northfield, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1829 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Allen attended the public schools in New Salem and then to 1794 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). He studied theology and served until 1798 as pastor of the Congregational Church in Northfield. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1800 admitted to the bar he began in New Salem to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. Between 1806 and 1810 Allen MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; 1812 to 1815 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1816 Allen was the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Taggart on March 4, 1817. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 six legislative periods. Since 1823 he represented as the successor of Henry W. Dwight the seventh district of his state. From 1821 to 1829 he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. He was a strong supporter of President John Quincy Adams. In 1828 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1829-1830 he served on the senior staff of the Governor of Massachusetts; In 1831 he was elected again in the state Senate. In Massachusetts, he fought for the farmers and workers and was a member of the regional Massachusetts ' Workingmen party that nominated him in the years 1833 and 1834 as then unsuccessful candidate for the office of governor. In addition, Allen has lectured at Amherst College, where he was also a board member. He also sat on the Board of the University of Vermont. Samuel Allen died on 8 February 1842 in Northfield. His son Elisha (1804-1883) belonged to the state of Maine also in the Congress.