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 | Winchester, Massachusetts, US | August 24, 1902
Died | August 9, 1963 Keene, Virginia, US | (aged 60)
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | Harvard College |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Branch/service | United States Army |
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.
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.
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:
He retired from business activities in 1962 and moved from Milwaukee, to Keene, Virginia, where he died.
Allen married Katharine Hancock Wilson on January 17, 1925. Together, they had three children. [1]