Robert E. Lee Allen

Robert Edward Lee Allen ( born November 28, 1865 in Lima, Tyler County, West Virginia; † January 28, 1951 in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Allen attended the public schools of his home, the Fairmont Normal School and Peabody College in Nashville ( Tennessee). Then he studied until 1895 at the University of West Virginia in Morgantown, among other Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Morgantown to work in his new profession.

Allen was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1895 and 1917 he sat in the City Council of Morgantown. From 1917 to 1921 he served as deputy head of the Federal Tax Authority for West Virginia. After that, he was until 1923 for two years of urban judges. 1922 Allen was elected in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Republican George M. Bowers on March 4, 1923. But since he Republican Frank L. Bowman defeated already at the next election in 1924, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1925.

In 1926, Allen applied unsuccessfully to make his return to the U.S. House of Representatives. He then worked again as a lawyer until 1927. He then moved to the Preston County, West Virginia. Between 1929 and 1939 he worked in the tourism industry by in Brookside, he led a recovery operation for tourists in the summer. He spent his life in Aurora (West Virginia). Robert Allen died in 1951 in Maryland and was buried in Kingwood.