{{Short description|American businessperson and politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Robert G. Allen.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|8|24}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1963|8|9|1902|8|24}} | birth_place = [[Winchester, Massachusetts]], US | death_place = [[Keene, Virginia]], US | state = [[Pennsylvania]] | district = [[Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district|28th]] | term_start = January 3, 1937 | term_end = January 3, 1941 | preceded = [[William M. Berlin]] | succeeded = [[Augustine B. Kelley]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard College]] | relatives = [[Warren A. Morton]] (son-in-law) | allegiance = [[United States]] | branch = {{army|USA}} *[[United States Army Ordnance Corps|Ordnance Corps]] | rank = [[Major (United States)|Major]] | battles = [[World War II]] | service_years = 1942 – 1945 }}
'''Robert Gray Allen''' (August 24, 1902{{spnd}}August 9, 1963) was an American businessman and a two-term [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]] from 1937 to 1941.
==Early life and education== Allen was born in [[Winchester, Massachusetts]], on August 24, 1902.<ref name="auto1">Marquis Who's Who, Inc. ''Who Was Who in American History, the Military''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. Page 8 {{ISBN|0837932017}} {{OCLC|657162692}}</ref> In 1906, he moved to [[Minneapolis]]. He was graduated from [[Phillips Academy]] at [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]], Massachusetts, in 1922 and later attended [[Harvard College]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts.<ref name="auto1"/> He moved to [[Greensburg, Pennsylvania|Greensburg]], Pennsylvania in 1929 and was a salesman and sales manager for a valve and fittings manufacturing business until 1937.
==Political and military career== [[Image:Robert Gray Allen.jpg|thumb|left|Allen in [[United States Congress|Congress]]]] He was district administrator of the [[Works Progress Administration]] in 1935 and 1936.
Allen was elected as a Democrat to the [[75th United States Congress|Seventy-fifth]] and [[76th United States Congress|Seventy-sixth]] Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1940 United States House of Representatives elections|1940]]. He became president of the Duff-Norton Manufacturing Company in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|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.<ref name="auto1"/>
After his time in Congress and the Army, he served in a variety of business positions: *[[Baldwin Locomotive Works]] (Sales manager) from 1945 to 1946<ref name="auto1"/> *Fisher Plastics Corporation (Vice President) in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] from 1946 to 1947 *[[SGL Carbon|Great Lakes Carbon Corporation]] (Vice President) from 1947 to 1954<ref name="auto1"/> *Pesco Products (President), a division of [[BorgWarner|Borg-Warner]] Corporation, from 1954–1957<ref name="auto1"/> *[[Bucyrus International|Bucyrus-Erie Company]] (Vice President in 1957 - 1958, and president in 1958) *Bucyrus-Erie Co. of Canada, Ltd. (chairman of the board and president) *Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., [[Lincoln, England]] (chairman of the board) *Director of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He retired from business activities in 1962 and moved from Milwaukee, to [[Keene, Virginia]], where he died on August 9, 1963, aged 60.
==Family and personal life== Allen married Katharine Hancock Wilson on January 17, 1925. Together, they had three children.<ref name="auto1"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|A000145}} Retrieved on 2008-01-26 *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen7.html The Political Graveyard]
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