Robert Allison (March 10, 1777 – December 2, 1840) was a member of the

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from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. Robert Allison born near

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. He attended local and private schools, and moved to

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Huntingdon is a borough in (and the county seat of) Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along the Juniata River, approximately east of Altoona, Pennsylvania, Altoona and west of Harris ...

, in 1795. He was employed as a clerk in his brother's office, studied law, was admitted to the bar in April 1798 and commenced the practice of law in Huntingdon. He served as a captain in the Huntingdon Volunteers during the

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. At the close of the war returned to Huntingdon and resumed the practice of law. He served as a burgess of Huntingdon in 1815, 1817, 1819, 1821–1824, and again in 1826. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress, in

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to the Twentieth Congress, and in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress. Allison was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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to the Twenty-third Congress. He continued the practice of law in Huntingdon until his death there in 1840. Interment in River View Cemetery.

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