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. After the adjournment of the forty-second genera1 assembly he became the editor and publisher of the Pocahontas Democrat which, under his management, is an independent newspaper. On December 18, 1926, he married Miss Elsa Erickson of Marathon, Iowa, whom he had met in college. They are the parents of one daughter, Virginia, and a son, Joseph Warne. A republican in politics, Mr. Allen was elected to the assembly in 1926 as an independent candidate and in 1928 was reelected as the nominee of his party.
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