Английская Википедия:Amos L. Allen
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Amos Lawrence Allen (March 17, 1837 – February 20, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1899 to 1911.
Early life and education
Born in Waterboro, Maine, Allen attended the common schools, Whitestown Seminary in Whitestown, New York, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1860. He studied law at Columbian Law School, Washington, D.C., and was admitted to the bar of York County in 1866, but never practiced.
Career
He served as a clerk in the United States Treasury Department from 1867 to 1870.
Allen was elected clerk of the courts for York County, Maine in 1870. He was reelected three times and served until January 1, 1883. He served in the Maine House of Representatives in 1886 and 1887.
He was private secretary to Speaker Thomas B. Reed in the Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses. He served as delegate at large to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896.
Congress
Allen was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas B. Reed.[1] He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1899, until his death in Washington, D.C., on February 20, 1911, from pneumonia.[2]
He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Alfred, Maine.
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References
External links
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- Amos L. Allen, late a representative from Maine, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1912
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