William F. Allen

William Franklin Allen ( born January 19, 1883 in Bridgeville, Delaware, † June 14, 1946 in Lewes, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Allen attended the public schools in Bridgeville and Laurel. Then he moved to Seaford. Between 1902 and 1922 he worked in various positions for the railway company Pennsylvania Railroad. Then he set out as a mail order dealer independently by sent fruit and other agricultural products. Since 1926, Allen was also in the oil business. Politically, Allen was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Between 1925 and 1929 he was a member of the Senate from Delaware, where he served in 1927 as its president. Allen was a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal policies.

1936 Allen was elected against the Republican incumbent George J. Stewart in the U.S. House of Representatives. He took his seat on January 3, 1937, could, after an election loss to George S. Williams in the elections of 1938, only until January 3, 1939 exercise. After the end of his time in Congress, Allen worked primarily in the oil and gas business. He died in 1946 in a hospital in Lewes. William Allen was married to Addie M. Davies, with whom he had three children.