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Charles Allen

ALLEN, Charles, jurist, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, 9 August 1797; died there, 6 August 1869. He was admitted to the bar in 1821. He was elected to the legislature in 1829, 1834, 1836, and 1840. In 1835, 1838, and 1839 he sat in the state senate, He was a commissioner to negotiate the Ashburton treaty in 1842, and judge of the court of common pleas from 1842 to 1844. lie was active in the free-soil movement, and was elected to congress in 1848 and realected in 1850. In 1849 he edited the Boston " Whig," afterward called the "Republican." He was appointed chief justice of the superior court of Suffolk county in 1858, which office he resigned in 1867.

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