James C. Allen

James Cameron Allen ( born January 29, 1822 Shelby County, Kentucky; † January 30, 1912 in Olney, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1853 and 1857, and again from 1863 to 1865, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Allen attended the public schools of his home. In 1830 he moved to Indiana. After a subsequent law degree in 1843 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Sullivan to work in this profession. Between 1846 and 1848 he was a prosecutor in the Seventh Judicial District of Indiana. In 1848, Allen moved to Palestine, Illinois, where he practiced as a lawyer again. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1850 and 1851 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Allen was in the seventh election district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Yates on March 4, 1855. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1857 two legislative sessions. However, his second term was interrupted by the Congress government. Between July 18 and November 4, 1856 mandate was unoccupied because Congress Allen revoked approval. Following a special election, which he won, he could take his former seat in Congress again and end the legislative session until March 3, 1857. Its that time in Congress was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 James Allen decided not to re- Congress candidate.

Between 1857 and 1859 James Allen exercised the duties of Clerk in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for the post of Governor of Illinois. Between 1861 and 1863 he served as a judge. In the elections of 1862 Allen was elected to Congress again in the then newly established 14 state-wide and district of Illinois, where he completed a further term of between 4 March 1863 and 3 March 1865. This was determined by the civil war. In 1864 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Allen first worked as a lawyer again. Between 1873 and 1879 he held the same two judgeships in Illinois. Since 1876 he lived in Olney, where he practiced as a lawyer again after his time as a judge. In 1907, he withdrew into retirement. James Allen died on 30 January 1912 in Olney.

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