John Allison (Representative)

John Allison (* August 5, 1812 in Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, † March 23, 1878 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853, and again from 1855 to 1857, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Allison was the son of Congressman James Allison ( 1772-1854 ). He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. However, he practiced this not very intense. Instead, he worked in the Hatter and Gerber industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the years 1846, 1847 and 1849 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Allison was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Rentoul Reed on March 4, 1851. Since he has not been confirmed in 1852, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853.

After the dissolution of the Whigs Allison was initially a member of the short-lived opposition party founded in 1854 and then the Republican Party. In the elections of 1854 he was elected to Congress again for the opposition party in the 23rd district of his state, where he could spend another legislative period between March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857. His two times in Congress were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

1856 renounced Allison on another candidacy. In the years 1856 and 1860, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, to which John C. Frémont and later Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the presidential candidate. Since 1869 until his death on 23 March 1878, he worked as register of the Treasury for the U.S. Treasury.