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| Affiliation | Democratic-Republican |
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| Name | Robert Allen |
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Lebanon, Tennessee , United States |
| Email | None |
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June 19, 1778
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| Died | August 19, 1844
(66 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | ALLEN, Robert, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Augusta County, Va., June 19, 1778; attended the rural schools and William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law and practiced; moved to Carthage, Tenn., in 1804 and engaged in the mercantile business; clerk of Smith County many years; during the War of 1812 served as colonel and commanded a regiment of Tennessee Volunteers under Gen. Andrew Jackson; elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1827); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Nineteenth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1826; engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits in Carthage, Tenn.; delegate to the State convention in 1834; died in Carthage, Tenn., August 19, 1844; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Lebanon, Tenn.
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