Edward P. Allen

Edward Payson Allen ( born October 28, 1839 in Sharon, Washtenaw County, Michigan, † November 25, 1909 in Ypsilanti, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Allen attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1864, the State Normal School in Ypsilanti. After his graduation, he participated there towards the end of the civil war in the drawing up of an infantry regiment. Since September 1864, he participated as a lieutenant in the army of the Union actively participated in the war. Until his retirement from military service in September 1865, he had risen to the captain.

After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1867 admitted to the bar he began in Ypsilanti to work in his new profession. In 1869, he worked for some time for the tax authority. 1872 Allen District Attorney in Washtenaw County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1872 to 1874 he sat in the council of Ypsilanti. 1876 ​​and 1878 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Michigan, whose current president, he was in 1878. In 1880, Allen was elected mayor of Ypsilanti. In the years 1882 and 1885 he was Indian agent for the State of Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Allen was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathaniel B. Eldredge on 4 March 1887. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1890 he was defeated by Democrat James P. Gorman. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Allen again worked as a lawyer. Between 1897 and 1903 he was a member of the Agriculture Committee, his home state. In 1899 and 1900 he served again as mayor of Ypsilanti. After that, he was from 1903 to 1909 to the Committee on Veterans Homes (State soldiers ' home board) of the State of Michigan. Edward Allen died on 25 November 1909 in his hometown of Ypsilanti.

255594
de