Allen, John M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 8, 1847, in Tishomingo county, Miss. He received a common-school education; and served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. He attended the law school of Cumberland university, Tennessee, and in 1870 graduated in law. from the university of Mississippi; in the same year was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of law at Tupelo, Miss. In 1875 he was elected district attorney for the first judicial district of Mississippi, in which position he served four years; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-ninth congress, and received the re-election to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth, and fifty-fifth congresses.