Allen T. Treadway

Allen Towner Treadway (born 16 September 1867 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, † February 16, 1947 in Washington DC) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1945 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Allen Treadway attended the public schools of his home and then to 1886 Amherst College. He then worked in the hotel industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1904, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Between 1908 and 1911 he was a member of the State Senate, he served as Chairman since 1909.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Treadway was elected in the first district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of George P. Lawrence on March 4, 1913. After 15 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1945, a total 16 legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress, which Treadways party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

1944 renounced Allen Treadway on a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Stockbridge. He died on 16 February 1947 in the German capital Washington.