ALLEN, John Beard
(1845—1903)
Senate Years of Service: 1889-1893
Party: Republican
ALLEN, John Beard, a Delegate from the Territory of Washington and a Senator
from Washington; born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Ind., May 18, 1845;
attended the public schools and Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind.; during the
Civil War served as a private; moved to Rochester, Minn., in 1865 and engaged in
business as a grain dealer; graduated from the law department of the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar in 1869; moved to
Washington Territory in 1870 and commenced the practice of law in Olympia;
appointed United States attorney for the Territory of Washington by President
Ulysses Grant and served from April 1875 to July 1885; reporter for the supreme
court of the Territory 1878-1885; moved to Walla Walla in 1881; elected as a
Republican Delegate to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-November 11,
1889); when the Territory was admitted as a State, elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate, and
served from November 20, 1889, to March 3, 1893; the legislature failing to
elect a Senator, was appointed by the Governor to serve in the Senate until
March 20, 1893; presented his credentials as a Senator-designate in 1893, but
was not permitted to qualify; moved to Seattle and resumed the practice of law;
died in Seattle, Wash., January 28, 1903; interment in Lakeview Cemetery in
Seattle.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Contributed by A. Newell.