Henry Dixon Allen

Henry Dixon Allen ( * June 24, 1854 in Henderson, Kentucky, † March 9, 1924 in Morganfield, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1855 came with his parents to Henry Allen Morganfield, where he attended the public schools and the Morganfield Collegiate Institute. Between 1869 and 1875 he taught as a teacher in Union County. After studying medicine at the Missouri Medical College in St. Louis ( Missouri) and his 1877 was admitted as a doctor, he practiced 1877-1878 in Union County in this profession. In 1878 he abandoned his work again; Instead, he studied law. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar, he worked as a lawyer in Morganfield.

Between 1879 and 1881 was Allen School Board in Union County. From 1882 to 1891 he served in this district as a prosecutor. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1898 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Daniel Clardy on March 4, 1899. After a re-election in 1900 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 two legislative sessions.

1902 Allen waived on a bid again. He subsequently worked as a lawyer and in the banking business and in agriculture. Henry Allen died on March 9, 1924 in his home in Morganfield.