Representative Byron G. Allen View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 6/10/1988

Birth Place: Laurens, Iowa

Birth County: Pocahontas

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
House: 42 (1927) - 44 (1931)

Home County: Pocahontas

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Father: Joseph H. Allen; GAs 32 - 36; Uncle: Fred C. Gilchrist; GAs 29, 40 - 43; Cousin: Frances G. Hakes; GAs 59, 60

Byron G. Allen

Pocahontas County

Representative from Pocahontas county, seventy-seventh district, was born at Laurens, Iowa, September 13, 1901. He is the son of ex-Senator Joseph H. Allen, who served the fiftieth senatorial district from the thirty-second to the thirty-seventh general assemblies, and is the nephew of Senator F. C. Gilchrist, who now represents the same district. Educated in the public schools of Pocahontas and graduated from West high school, Des Moines, and Pocahontas high school in 1919. Attended the State University of Iowa for one term and was a student in the agricultural economics department at Iowa State college from 1920 to 1924. Upon leaving college he returned to Pocahontas and engaged in farm management work. On December 18, 1926, he married Miss Elsa Erickson of Laurens, Iowa, whom he had met in college. A republican in politics but was elected to the forty-second general assembly as an independent candidate.

House District 77