Joseph Allen (congressman) explained

Joseph Allen
State:Massachusetts
District:10th
Term Start:October 8, 1810
Term End:March 3, 1811
Preceded:Jabez Upham
Succeeded:Elijah Brigham
Birth Date:2 September 1749
Birth Place:Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
Death Place:Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Party:Federalist
Alma Mater:Harvard University

Joseph Allen (September 2, 1749 – September 2, 1827) was a member of the eleventh United States Congress from (1810–1811).

He was born in Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and graduated from Harvard University in 1774. He worked in a business in Leicester, in 1774, moving to Worcester in 1776. In Worcester he served as a county clerk from 1776 to 1810. In 1788 he served as a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1810 as a Federalist, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Jabez Upham previously that year, and he served in that capacity through 1811. He declined to run for re-election to a full term. Afterwards, he served as a Massachusetts State Councilor from 1815 through 1818. He died in Worcester in 1827.

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