Charles Allen (Massachusetts politician)
Charles Allen ( born August 9, 1797 in Worcester, Massachusetts; † August 6, 1869 ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1853 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Charles Allen was the son of Congressman Joseph Allen (1749-1827) and a great-nephew of Governor Samuel Adams ( 1722-1803 ). In the years 1809-1811 he attended Leicester Academy. Then he studied until 1812 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1818 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in New Braintree to work in this profession. In 1824 he moved his residence and his law firm to Worcester. Between 1830 and 1840 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1836 and 1837 he was a member of the State Senate. 1842 Allen was elected to the North Eastern Boundary Commission. From 1842 to 1845 he also worked as an appellate judge. Allen was a member of the founded in the 1830s Whig party. In 1848, he participated as a delegate to their national convention in Philadelphia; after which he joined the Free Soil Party.
In the congressional elections of 1848, Allen was in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Hudson on March 4, 1849. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1853 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. It focused mainly on the question of slavery. In 1852, he renounced a new Congress candidacy.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Allen practiced as a lawyer again. In 1853 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. Between 1859 and 1869 he was Chief Judge of the Suffolk County Superior Court in the spring of 1861 he was a member of a negotiating committee that sought to prevent the outbreak of the Civil War unsuccessfully in the federal capital, Washington. He died on August 6, 1869 in Worcester.