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Allen, William Vincent

lawyer, legislator, jurist, United States senator, was born Jan. 28, 1847, in Medway, Ohio.

He received his education in the Iowa common schools and the Upper Iowa university of Fayette.

He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company G, thirty-second Iowa volunteer infantry. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar; removed to Nebraska in 1884; and in 1891 was elected judge of the ninth judicial district of that state. In 1893 he was elected a member of the United States senate for the full term of six years. As a lawyer, judge and senator, he has established an admitted leadership. He is a marvel of senate oratory, having made a notable fifteen hours' speech in the great silver debate; and is the unquestioned populist leader in the entire congress.