William Allen (congressman)
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from Ohio
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during the early part of the American Civil War
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.
Allen was born near Hamilton, Ohio
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, where he attended the public schools. As a young man, he taught school, then studied law. Allen was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Greenville, Ohio
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, in 1850. He was the prosecuting attorney of Darke County
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from 1850 until 1854.
Allen was elected as a Democrat
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to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859–March 3, 1863), where he served as chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Thirty-seventh Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862 and resumed the practice of law. He became affiliated with the Republican Party
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at the close of the Civil War and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas
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of the second judicial district in 1865. He declined the Republican nomination for election to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878 because of failing health. He was interested in banking until his death in Greenville, Ohio in 1881. He was buried in Greenville Cemetery.
Allen County, Kansas
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, is named after him.