Fred J. Allen

{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Fred J. Allen |image = Fred J. Allen (Maine state senator).jpg |caption = From 1902's ''An Album of the Attorneys of Maine'' |office = 70th President of the Maine Senate |term_start = January 2, 1907 |term_end = January 6, 1909 |predecessor = Forrest Goodwin |successor = Luere B. Deasy |state_senate1= Maine |district1 = 1st |alongside1 = J. B. E. Tartre and J. W. Simpson |term_start1 = January 4, 1905 |term_end1 = January 6, 1909 |predecessor1 = Oliver C. Titcomb |successor1 = George H. Smith |constituency1= York County |state_house2 = Maine |constituency2= {{nowrap|from Sanford}} |term_start2 = January 2, 1901 |term_end2 = January 4, 1905 |predecessor2 = William Kernon |successor2 = George A. Goodwin |birth_name = Fred John Allen |birth_date = July 27, 1865 |birth_place = Alfred, Maine, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1917|2|2|1865|7|27}} |death_place = Sanford, Maine, U.S. |party = Republican |spouse = |children = |alma_mater = Bowdoin College |website = }} '''Fred John Allen''' (July 27, 1865 – February 2, 1917) was an American politician and lawyer from Maine. Allen, a native of Alfred, Maine and member of the Republican Party, served in the Maine Legislature from 1901 to 1908.<ref name="bowdoin">{{cite book |title=Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine |date=1917 |publisher=Bowdoin College |page=447 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5lbOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA446 |access-date=15 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Allen served two terms in the Maine House of Representatives from 1901 to 1904. Elected to the Maine Senate in 1904, Allen also was elected Senate President in 1907–1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/lawlib/legbiog/webform1.aspx|title=Legislators Biographical Search|publisher=Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220092239/http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/lawlib/legbiog/webform1.aspx|archive-date=20 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Prior to Allen's time in politics, he attended Bowdoin College and served as superintendent of Sanford public schools.<ref name="bowdoin"/>

Allen's brother, Amos L. Allen, spent 12 years in the United States Congress from Maine's 1st congressional district.<ref name=Obit>{{cite news|url=http://obituaries.pressherald.com/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/obituary.aspx?n=charles-debertram-allen&pid=16567688|title=Charles Allen Obituary - Portland, ME|date=February 1, 2006|work=Portland Press Herald|access-date=1 July 2016}}</ref>

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