Robert G. Allen

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Robert Gray Allen (August 24, 1902–August 19, 1963) was an American businessman and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Robert G. Allen was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1906. He was graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1922 and later attended Harvard University. He moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1929 and was a salesman and sales manager for a valve and fittings manufacturing business until 1937. 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, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1943. He was commissioned a major in the Ordnance Corps of the United States Army 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:

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

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Preceded by
William M. Berlin		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district
1937-1941		 Succeeded by
Augustine B. Kelley