Charles Herbert Allen

Charles Herbert Allen ( born April 15, 1848 in Lowell, Massachusetts, † April 20, 1934 ) was an American politician and artist.

After graduating from Amherst College in 1869, he worked in the wood factory of his father Otis Allen. The following year he married Harriet C. Dean of Manchester (New Hampshire), with whom he had two children. Later he became curator of Amherst College in 1900 and received a LLD title.

Allen's political career began in the school committee of Lowell, where he initiated the evening school. From 1881 to 1882 he sat in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1883, he was a member of the State Senate. As a representative of the Republicans he was on 4 March 1885 to the March 3, 1889 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 49th and 50th Congress. In the election for governor of Massachusetts, he failed in 1890 to William Russell.

In 1884 he received the title of "Colonel ", as Governor George D. Robinson took him in his personal staff. Allen's friends talked him always with this title. Allen worked from 1897 to 1898 as a prison officer from Massachusetts.

1898 appointed U.S. President William McKinley appointed Deputy Minister of Marine, as Theodore Roosevelt gave him the job to pull in the Spanish-American War. Allen held the office until 1900. After the war, McKinley appointed him as the first civil governor of Puerto Rico. In Allan's withdrawal from office, the government of the island was debt free and had a million dollars.

Allan returned to Lowell and developed an interest in banks and other companies. He took on several posts in the Directorate of banks and shops in Lowell and New York. He was also Vice President of the Morton Trust Co. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and president of the American Sugar Refining Company.

27 landscape and marine paintings, painted by Allen, are in the collection of the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell. His house is now located on the south campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell.