Joseph Allen (congressman)

Joseph Allen ( born September 2, 1749 Boston, Massachusetts, † September 2, 1827 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1810 and 1811, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Allen was a nephew of Samuel Adams (1722-1803), delegate to the Continental Congress and governor of Massachusetts was. He grew up during the British colonial period and studied until 1774 at Harvard College. Then he moved to Leicester, where he pursued private business. Since 1776, he lived in Worcester. Between 1776 and 1810 he was employed as a county clerk in the administration of Worcester County. In 1788, Allen was a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. By 1810 he was also active in the administration of justice.

Politically, Allen was a member of the Federalist Party. Following the resignation of Mr Jabez Upham he was in the due election for the tenth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 8 October 1810. Since he resigned at the regular elections this year to another candidacy, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1811. Between 1815 and 1818 Joseph Allen held the post of State Councilor of Massachusetts. He died on September 2, 1827, his 78th birthday, in Worcester.