Henry Dixon Allen was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kentucky

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Born near Henderson, Kentucky

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, Allen moved with his parents to Morganfield, Union County, in 1855.
He attended the common schools and Morganfield Collegiate Institute.
He taught school in Union County 1869-1875.
He studied medicine and was graduated from the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri

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, in 1877.
Practiced medicine in Union County from 1877 to 1878.
Abandoned medicine and studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1878 and commenced practice in Morganfield, Kentucky

Morganfield, Kentucky

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County school commissioner 1879-1881.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Union County 1882-1891.

Allen was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-sixth

56th United States Congress

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 and Fifty-seventh

57th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902.
He resumed the practice of law.
He also engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits.
He died in Morganfield, Kentucky

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, March 9, 1924.
He was interred in Masonic Cemetery.