Henry Justin Allen

Henry Justin Allen

Infobox Governor
name= Henry J. Allen


caption=
order=21st
office= Governor of Kansas
term_start= January 13, 1919
term_end= January 8, 1923
lieutenant= Charles Solomon Huffman
predecessor= Arthur Capper
successor= Jonathan M. Davis
birth_date= birth date|1868|9|11|mf=y
birth_place= Warren County, Pennsylvania
death_date= death date and age|1950|1|17|1868|9|11|mf=y
death_place= Wichita, Kansas
spouse= Elsie Jane Nuzman
profession= newspaper editor
party= Republican
religion= Methodist
footnotes=

Henry Justin Allen (September 11, 1868 - January 17, 1950) was twenty-first Governor of Kansas (1919-1923) and U.S. Senator from Kansas (1929-31).

Allen was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania to John and Rebecca Elizabeth (Goodwin) Allen. His family moved to Kansas in 1870, where they settled in Clay County.

Before becoming active in politics, Allen acquired ownership of newspapers throughout Kansas, beginning with the "Manhattan Nationalist" in Manhattan, Kansas in 1894. Generally forward-looking in his outlook, he hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home in Wichita, Kansas.

Allen was in France with William Allen White inspecting the facilities provided to Kansas soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I when his party nominated him for the office of governor. During the campaign in 1918, Allen never spent any of his own money and learned about his nomination from a Paris newspaper.

Allen expressed some admiration for Benito Mussolini's policies in the 1920s and pushed through a similar industrial court provision. When publisher William Allen White objected, he was arrested in a free speech battle. White won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial "To an Anxious Friend," published July 27, 1922 opposing the law. [ [http://www.kspress.com/img/HOF/members/white-wa.html Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame ] ]

Allen died in 1950 following a cerebral thrombosis in Wichita, Kansas. He is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.

Trivia

* Allen's home is the only residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Kansas.

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6635532 Find-A-Grave profile for Henry J. Allen]


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