Heman Allen (June 14, 1777 – December 11, 1844) was an American lawyer and politician from

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, Vermont. He served as a

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Biography

Allen was born in Ashfield (now Deerfield, Massachusetts) to Enoch Allen and Mercy Belding Allen. He attended an academy in Chesterfield, New Hampshire for two years before moving to

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. He

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with Elnathan Keyes of Burlington and

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of St. Albans. Allen was admitted to the bar in 1803. He began the practice of law in Milton, and was the first resident lawyer in Milton. Allen served as a member of the

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from 1810 to 1814, 1816 to 1817, 1822, and 1824 to 1826. He moved to

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in 1828 and continued the practice of law. He was elected as an

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candidate to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third and the Twenty-fourth Congresses March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1837). He was elected as a Whig candidate to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, until March 3, 1839. While in Congress, Allen served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury during the Twenty-third through Twenty-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress. After leaving Congress, Allen resumed the practice of law. He was a director of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.

Personal life

Allen married Sarah Ann "Sally" Prentis Allen on December 4, 1804. They had eight children; Heman Jr., Lucius, George, Sarah, Charles Prentis, Joseph William, Julia, and James Heman. Allen was the distant cousin of

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, United States Representative from Colchester, Vermont and America's first United States Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile.

Death

Allen died in Burlington on December 11, 1844, and is interred at the Elmwood Avenue Cemetery in Burlington.

References

External links

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: ALLEN, Heman (of Milton), (1777 - 1844)

Govtrack.us: Rep. Heman “of Milton” Allen

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