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  Allen, William Joshua
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NameWilliam Joshua Allen
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Marion, Illinois , United States
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Born June 09, 1829
DiedJanuary 26, 1901 (71 years)
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Info (son of Willis Allen), a Representative from Illinois; born in Wilson County, Tenn., June 9, 1829; moved with his father to Franklin (now Williamson) County, Ill., about 1830, and in 1839 settled in Marion; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Metropolis; enrolling and engrossing clerk of the State house of representatives in 1849 and 1851; moved to Marion, Ill., in 1853 and continued the practice of his profession; appointed prosecuting attorney for the twenty-sixth judicial circuit of Illinois in 1854; member of the State senate in 1855; elected judge of the circuit court of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit on June 24, 1859, and served until 1861; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Logan; reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from June 2, 1862, to March 3, 1865; was not a candidate for reelection in 1864; member of the State constitutional conventions in 1862 and 1870; delegate to all Democratic National Conventions from 1864 to 1888; moved to Springfield, Ill., in 1886; appointed United States district judge for the southern district of Illinois on April 18, 1887, and served until his death January 26, 1901, while visiting in Hot Springs, Ark.; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.


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  11/05/1878 IL District 18 Lost 44.37% (-2.25%)
  11/06/1866 IL District 13 Lost 48.92% (-2.16%)
  11/08/1864 IL District 13 Lost 47.82% (-4.37%)
  11/04/1862 IL District 13 Won 68.88% (+37.77%)
  06/02/1862 IL District 09-Special Won 35.67% (+5.52%)
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