Alley, John B
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1817, in Lynn, Mass. He entered largely into the shoe and leather business; served several years in the city councils of Lynn; was a member of the governor's council in 1851; a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1852; of the state constitutional convention held in 1853; and in 1858 was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the unirty-sixth congress. He was elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses, and was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalist convention of 1866.