Clarence Emir Allen

Clarence Emir Allen ( born September 8, 1852 Erie County, Pennsylvania, † July 9, 1932 in Escondido, California ) was an American politician. Between 1896 and 1897 he represented the state of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Clarence Allen attended the public schools of his home, and until 1877 the Western Reserve College, which was then in Hudson ( Ohio). In 1881 he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. There he worked until 1886 as a teacher at the Salt Lake Academy. He was then engaged in mining business.

Political career

Clarence Allen was first a member of the Liberal Party, which turned in Utah especially against church representatives in political office. In the years 1888, 1890 and 1894 Allen was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives. Between 1890 and 1893 he was Town Clerk ( County Clerk ) in Salt Lake County. At that time he also studied law. After his 1893 was admitted to the bar he began this career in Salt Lake City to exercise. In 1892, he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the office of the Liberal convention delegates. In the same year he joined the Republican Party, whose Republican National Convention he attended between 1892 and 1896 as a delegate.

After Utah had joined as a new state of the United States, Allen was elected as a candidate of his new party into the U.S. House of Representatives. This mandate he held between January 4, 1896 and March 3, 1897. A renewed candidacy for the congressional elections of 1896 he refused.

Further CV

After the end of his political activity in Congress Allen devoted to 1922 again its shops in mining. Then he withdrew into retirement, he spent until 1931 in Columbus (Ohio ). He then moved to California, where he died in 1932.