Heman Allen (of Milton)
Heman Allen ( born June 14, 1777 Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † December 11, 1844 in Burlington, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1839 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Heman Allen studied for two years at a school in Chesterfield (New Hampshire). He then moved to Grand Isle, Vermont. After studying law and its made in 1803 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Milton.
Allen was also active in politics. Between 1810 and 1826, he was several times with a few interruptions, a deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1828 he moved his residence and his law practice to Burlington. After the restructuring of the American Parteieinlandschaft in the 1820s Allen graduated first on the short-lived National Republican Party and the Whigs, both of which were in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. 1830 Allen was elected as the candidate of Nationalrepublikaner in the fourth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1831 the successor of Benjamin Swift. Since he was confirmed in each case in the following midterm elections, Allen was able to complete up to March 3, 1839 a total of four legislative sessions in Congress. In his last term of office, which began March 4, 1837 he was the official delegate of the Whigs. Between 1833 and 1839 Allen was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance. At the beginning of his time in Congress, he experienced the heated debate surrounding the policy of President Jackson. This is discussed included the plan for the destruction of the Bundesbank and the Nullifikationskrise with the state of South Carolina. In 1838 Allen was defeated by Democrat John Smith.
After the end of his time in Congress, Allen withdrew from politics and again worked as a lawyer in Burlington. There he is also deceased in December 1844. Heman Allen is not to be confused with the Heman Allen, who was 1817-1818 congressman from Vermont. There is no evidence of a relationship between these two politicians.