Allen was the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district and was a Jackson. He served from 1825 to 1827.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as (unknown party) from 1823 to 1825; the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823; and the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1819 to 1821.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1819 to Mar 1827, Allen missed 100 of 447 roll call votes, which is 22.4%. This is worse than the median of 16.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1827. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
