Tom Allen

Thomas Hodge "Tom" Allen ( born April 16, 1945 in Portland, Maine) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 2009 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tom Allen attended until 1963, the Deering High School and then studied until 1967 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. In 1970 he studied on a scholarship at the University of Oxford in England. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his admission to the bar he began in Maine to work in his new profession. In 1968, Allen served on the staff of Governor Kenneth Curtis. In the years 1970 and 1971 he worked for the Edmund S. Muskie U.S. Senator.

Allen joined the Democratic Party. In 1989 he was elected to the city council of Portland; 1991 to 1992 he was mayor of that city. In the congressional elections of 1996, he was the first electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he stepped on 3 January 1997 at the succession of Republican James B. Longley, whom he had defeated in the election. After five elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2009. He was at times a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, in three of its sub- committees and the Budget Committee. He was also a member of the House Ocean Caucus and the House Affordable Medicines Task Force. In Congress, he sat down for a health care reform, a change in the campaign finance and the needs of smaller firms a.

In 2008, Allen gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. In these elections, he lost clearly with 38.5 % of the vote against Susan Collins, who came to 61.5 % of the vote. Since 1 May 2009, Allen, as the successor of Patricia Schroeder CEO of the Association of American Publishers ( Association of American Publishers). He is married and lives in Portland.