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Robert G. Allen

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Robert Gray Allen
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 28th district
In office
January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1941
Preceded byWilliam M. Berlin
Succeeded byAugustine B. Kelley
Personal details
Born(1902-08-24)August 24, 1902
Winchester, Massachusetts, US
DiedAugust 9, 1963(1963-08-09) (aged 60)
Keene, Virginia, US
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materHarvard College
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service1942 – 1945
RankMajor
Battles/warsWorld War II

Robert Gray Allen (August 24, 1902 – August 9, 1963) was an American businessman and a two-term Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1937 to 1941.

Early life and education

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Allen was born in Winchester, Massachusetts on August 24, 1902.[1] In 1906 he moved to Minneapolis. He was graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1922 and later attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] He moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1929 and was a salesman and sales manager for a valve and fittings manufacturing business until 1937.

Political and military career

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Allen in Congress

He was district administrator of the Works Progress Administration in 1935 and 1936.

Allen was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1940. He became president of the Duff-Norton Manufacturing Company in 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.[1]

After his time in Congress and the Army, he served in a variety of business positions:

He retired from business activities in 1962 and moved from Milwaukee, to Keene, Virginia, where he died.

Family and personal life

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Allen married Katharine Hancock Wilson on January 17, 1925. Together, they had three children.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Marquis Who's Who, Inc. Who Was Who in American History, the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. Page 8 ISBN 0837932017 OCLC 657162692
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district

1937–1941
Succeeded by