Robert G. Allen
Robert Gray Allen | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 28th district | |
| In office January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1941 | |
| Preceded by | William M. Berlin |
| Succeeded by | Augustine B. Kelley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 24, 1902 Winchester, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | August 9, 1963 (aged 60) Keene, Virginia, US |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Army
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| Years of service | 1942 – 1945 |
| Rank | Major |
| Battles/wars | World 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
[edit]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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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:
- Baldwin Locomotive Works (Sales manager) from 1945 to 1946[1]
- Fisher Plastics Corporation (Vice President) in Boston, Massachusetts from 1946 to 1947
- Great Lakes Carbon Corporation (Vice President) from 1947 to 1954[1]
- Pesco Products (President), a division of Borg-Warner Corporation, from 1954–1957[1]
- 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
[edit]Allen married Katharine Hancock Wilson on January 17, 1925. Together, they had three children.[1]
References
[edit]- United States Congress. "Robert G. Allen (id: A000145)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-01-26
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