{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Edward Normand Allen | image = Edward Normand Allen.png | alt = | order = 92nd | office = Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut | term_start = January 3, 1951 | term_end =January 5, 1955 | governor = John Davis Lodge | predecessor = William T. Carroll | successor = Charles W. Jewett | order1 = 51st | office1 = Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut | term_start1 = January 3, 1947 | term_end1 = January 6, 1948 | predecessor1 = Cornelius A. Moylan | successor1 = Cyril Coleman | state_senate2 = Connecticut State | district2 = 1st | term_start2 = 1927 | term_end2 = 1929 | predecessor2 = Samuel Colt Doty | successor2 = Michael A. Connor | birth_date = {{birth date|1891|4|18}} | birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1972|11|14|1891|4|18}} | death_place = | resting_place = Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Connecticut, U.S. | party = Republican }} '''Edward Normand Allen''' (April 18, 1891 – November 14, 1972) was an American politician who was the 92nd lieutenant governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955.<ref>[http://www.cslib.org/agencies/lieutenantgovernor.htm Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies, Lieutenant Governor] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026194408/http://www.cslib.org/agencies/lieutenantgovernor.htm |date=October 26, 2007 }}.</ref>
==Early life== Allen was born in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut on April 18, 1891. He attended Norwich University and graduated from Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army in the First World War. In 1916 he rode with General Pershing in the expedition into Mexico pursuing rebel Pancho Villa. He married Ruby Tuttle (1894–1992) on December 13, 1916. They had three children: Jane Allen Merrick (1917–2000), Caroline Allen Talbot (1920–2015), and Frances Allen (1924–2000). From 1920 to 1924, he was Hartford Police Commissioner; later he was head of the Sage-Allen department store. He married Mildred Pomeranz November 7, 1935.<ref>[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html The Political Graveyard], Index to Politicians: Allen, E to F.</ref> They had two children, Normand Francis Allen II (1935–present) and Mary.
==Political career== Allen was a Republican and a member of the Connecticut State Senate for the 1st District from 1927 to 1929. He was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention from Connecticut in 1928. From 1947 to 1948, he was mayor of Hartford.<ref>[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html The Political Graveyard], as above.</ref> He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut as a running mate of John D. Lodge in 1950 to the first four-year term of governor and lieutenant governor of the State. They served for one term, from January 3, 1951, to January 5, 1955.
Allen's second wife, Mildred Pomeranz Allen, who was also a Republican, was Secretary of State of Connecticut from 1955 to 1959.<ref>[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen6.html The Political Graveyard], Index to Politicians: Allen, K to N.</ref>
Allen was a recipient of the Yale Club of Hartford's Nathan Hale Award in recognition of outstanding service to Yale and Connecticut.<ref>{{cite news | title = Yale Club Gives Award To Former Lt. Gov. Allen | newspaper = The Hartford Courant | date = November 18, 1959 | page = 6 | via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
Allen died on November 14, 1972, and was interred at Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Connecticut.
==See also== *List of governors of Connecticut
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