Heman Allen (of Colchester)

Heman Allen ( born February 23, 1779 Poultney, Rutland County, Vermont, † April 7, 1852 in Highgate, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1818, he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives and from 1824 to 1827 he was U.S. Ambassador to Chile.

Career

Heman Allen attended the public schools of his home and then studied until 1795 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After studying law and its made ​​in 1801 admitted to the bar he began in Colchester to work in his new profession. Between 1808 and 1809 he was head of the police department in Chittenden County as Sheriff. From 1811 to 1814 he was Chief Judge at the local district court.

Allen was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1812 and 1817 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In the congressional elections of 1816 he was in the fourth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1817 the successor to the Federals Asa Lyon. Allen exercised his mandate in Congress but only until his resignation on 20 April 1818. After that, he was from 1818 to 1823 U.S. Marshal for the District of Vermont.

Then Allen was appointed by President James Monroe to the U.S. ambassador to the newly independent State only recently Chile. This post he held between 27 January 1823 to 31 July 1827. Since 1830 Allen was head of the branch of the Federal Bank in Burlington. There he remained until the dissolution of the bank in 1836 by President Andrew Jackson. Then Heman Allen worked as a lawyer in Highgate, where he died in 1852.

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