Heman Allen (of Milton)

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Heman Allen (June 14, 1777 - December 11, 1844) was a U.S. Representative from Milton, Vermont.

Born in Ashfield (now Deerfield, Massachusetts, Allen attended an academy in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, for two years. He moved to Grand Isle, Vermont. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1803 and commenced practice in Milton. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1810-1814, 1816, 1817, 1822, and 1824-1826. He moved to Burlington in 1828 and continued the practice of his profession.

Allen was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second through the Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1839). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Twenty-third through Twenty-fifth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Burlington on December 11, 1844. He was interred in Elmwood Avenue Cemetery.

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• Heman Allen (of Milton) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress