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{{Short description|American politician (1777–1844)}}
{{About|the politician from Milton, Vermont|other people|Heman Allen (disambiguation)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name= Heman Allen
| image= Heman Allen of Milton (Vermont Congressman).jpg
| caption=From Volume II of 1905's ''Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse''
| jr/sr=
| term_start=
| term_end=
| preceded=
| succeeded=
| order1= Member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Vermont]]'s [[Vermont's 4th congressional district|4th]] district
| term_start1= March 4, 1831
| term_end1= March 3, 1839
| predecessor1= [[Benjamin Swift]]
| successor1= [[John Smith (Vermont politician)|John Smith]]
| office4 = Member of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]]
| term4 = 1810–1814<br>1816-1817<br>1822<br>1824–1826
| birth_date= {{Birth date|1777|6|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place =[[Ashfield, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date= {{Death date and age|1844|12|11|1777|6|14|mf=y}}
| death_place= [[Burlington, Vermont]], U.S.
| state= [[Vermont]]
| spouse= Sarah Ann "Sally" Prentis Allen
| children = 8
| profession= [[Politician]], [[Lawyer]]
| religion=
| alma_mater=
| party = [[Anti-Jacksonian Party (United States)|Anti-Jacksonian]]<br/>[[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]
}}
'''Heman Allen''' (June 14, 1777 – December 11, 1844) was an American lawyer and politician from [[Milton, Vermont|Milton]], [[Vermont]]. He served as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]].

==Biography==
Allen was born in Ashfield (now [[Deerfield, Massachusetts]]) to Enoch Allen and Mercy Belding Allen. He attended an academy in [[Chesterfield, New Hampshire]] for two years before moving to [[Grand Isle, Vermont]].

He [[read law]] with Elnathan Keyes of Burlington and [[Bates Turner]] of St. Albans. Allen was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1803.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vermont History|year=1921|pages=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA81 }}</ref> He began the [[practice of law]] in Milton, and was the first resident lawyer in Milton.<ref>{{cite book|last=Duffy|first=John J.|title=The Vermont Encyclopedia|year=2003|publisher=UPNE|pages=38|isbn=9781584650867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA38 }}</ref>

Allen served as a member of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]] from 1810 to 1814, 1816 to 1817, 1822, and 1824 to 1826.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html|title =Allen, Heman, of Milton (1777-1844)
| publisher= The Political Graveyard|accessdate= December 7, 2012}}</ref> He moved to [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]] in 1828 and continued the practice of law.

He was elected as an [[Anti-Jacksonian Party (United States)|Anti-Jacksonian]] candidate to the [[22nd United States Congress|Twenty-second]], [[23rd United States Congress|Twenty-third]] and the [[24th United States Congress|Twenty-fourth]] Congresses March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1837).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000123|title=ALLEN, Heman (of Milton), (1777 - 1844)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= December 7, 2012 }}</ref> He was elected as a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] candidate to the [[25th United States Congress|Twenty-fifth]] Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, until March 3, 1839.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/heman_allen/400779|title =Rep. Heman "of Milton" Allen
| publisher= Govtrack.us|accessdate= December 7, 2012}}</ref>

While in Congress, Allen served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury during the Twenty-third through Twenty-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the [[26th United States Congress|Twenty-sixth]] Congress. After leaving Congress, Allen resumed the practice of law. He was a director of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/record.php?id=122573701
|title= Allen, H. (Heman), 1777-1844.|publisher= New York State Library|accessdate= December 7, 2012}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Allen married Sarah Ann "Sally" Prentis Allen on December 4, 1804. They had eight children; Heman Jr., Lucius, [[George Allen (Vermont clergyman)|George]], Sarah, Charles Prentis, Joseph William, Julia, and James Heman.

Allen was the distant cousin of [[Heman Allen (of Colchester)]], United States Representative from [[Colchester, Vermont]] and America's first United States [[Minister Plenipotentiary]] to Chile.<ref>{{cite book|last=Duffy|first=John J.|title=The Vermont Encyclopedia|year=2003|publisher=UPNE|pages=38|isbn=9781584650867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA38 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000122|title =Allen, Heman (of Colchester), (1779 - 1852) | publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= December 7, 2012}}</ref> To distinguish between them, he was often referred to as ''Heman Allen (of Milton)''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lanman |first=Charles |date=1886 |title=Haphazard Personalities: Chiefly of Noted Americans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-g-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105 |location=New York |publisher=Charles T. Dillingham |page=105 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

==Death==
Allen died in Burlington on December 11, 1844, and is interred at the Elmwood Avenue Cemetery in Burlington.

== References ==
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==External links== 
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000123 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: ALLEN, Heman (of Milton), (1777 - 1844)]
* [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/heman_allen/400779 Govtrack.us: Rep. Heman “of Milton” Allen]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html The Political Graveyard: Allen, Heman, of Milton (1777-1844)]
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtwindha/vhg1/0599_bio.htmAncestry.com: Burlington, Vermont]

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| district = 4
| before = [[Benjamin Swift]]
| after = [[John Smith (Vermont politician)|John Smith]]
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