Early life and education
Allen was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts on August 24, 1902.Marquis Who's Who, Inc. ''Who Was Who in American History, the Military''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. Page 8 He moved to Minneapolis, in 1906. He was graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1922 and later attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1929 and was a salesman and sales manager for a valve and fittings manufacturing business until 1937.Political and military career
He was district administrator of the Works Progress Administration in 1935 and 1936. Allen was elected as a Democrat to the 75th United States Congress, Seventy-fifth and 76th United States Congress, Seventy-sixth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in United States House election, 1940, 1940. He became president of the Duff-Norton Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, from 1940 to 1943. He was commissioned a major in the United States Army Ordnance Corps in July 1942 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1943. He served until his discharge in January 1945. After his time in Congress and the Army, he served in a variety of business positions: *Baldwin Locomotive Works (Sales manager) from 1945 to 1946 *Fisher Plastics Corporation (Vice President) in Boston, Massachusetts from 1946 to 1947 *SGL Carbon, Great Lakes Carbon Corporation (Vice President) from 1947 to 1954 *Pesco Products (President), a division of BorgWarner, Borg-Warner Corporation, from 1954–1957 *Bucyrus International, Bucyrus-Erie Company (Vice President in 1957 - 1958, and president in 1958) *Bucyrus-Erie Co. of Canada, Ltd. (chairman of the board and president) *Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., Lincoln, England (chairman of the board) *Director of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He retired from business activities in 1962 and moved from Milwaukee, to Keene, Virginia, where he died.Family and personal life
Allen married Katharine Hancock Wilson on January 17, 1925. Together, they had three children. In 1948, Allen's daughter, Katharine "Kathy" Allen, married Warren A. Morton (1924–2002), an oilman in Casper, Wyoming, Casper who later served as Speaker (politics), Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1979–1980 and was the unsuccessful Republican Party (United States), Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1982. Katharine Morton recalls that though her father had been a New Deal supporter, he opposed U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937 and also ran afoul of United Mine Workers labor figure John L. Lewis.References
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