Nathaniel Allen

Nathaniel Allen ( * 1780 in East Bloomfield, New York, † December 22, 1832 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Robert Lawson Rose was his son.

Career

Nathaniel Allen was born during the War of Independence in Ontario County. He attended community schools. Then he worked as a blacksmith in Canandaigua. In 1796 he had a peculiar forge in Richmond at Allen's Hill. He served as an officer in a militia. On 1 July 1811 he was appointed postmaster of Honeoye Falls. During the British - American War in 1812 he was working as a commissioner and paymaster on the Niagara frontier. He sat 1812 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1815 and 1819 he was sheriff in Ontario County.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 for the 16th Congress Allen was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Benjamin Ellicott and John Canfield Spencer took on March 4, 1819 which together previously represented the 21th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he gave up for reelection in 1820, retired after the March 3, 1821 out of the Congress.

In 1824 he was supervisor in Richmond - a post he held until 1826. Allen then went to the prosecuting money claims that arose in connection with the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal. He died on December 22, 1832 on a business trip in the Gault House Hotel in Louisville. His body was buried in the cemetery of the Episcopal Church in Allen's Hill.