Allen J. Furlow

Allen John Furlow ( born November 9, 1890 in Rochester, Minnesota, † January 29, 1954 ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1929 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Furlow Allen attended the public schools of his home. In 1910 he graduated from Rochester High School. During the First World War, he was a lieutenant in the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. After a subsequent law studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC and its made ​​in 1920 admitted to the bar he started in Rochester to work in his new profession.

Politically Furlow was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1923 and 1925 he sat in the Senate from Minnesota. In the congressional elections of 1924, he was elected in the first district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Sydney Anderson on March 4, 1925. After a re-election in 1926 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 two legislative sessions. For the 1928 elections, he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Furlow worked 1929-1930 in the legal department of the Washington-based Curtiss -Wright Corporation. Then he initially worked for the Justice Department and then from 1934 to 1937 in the legal department of the Veterans Office. He then returned to Rochester, where he worked as a lawyer until his death.