Tom Allen
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Rep. Tom Allen |
Thomas H. Allen (
April 16 1945- ) has been a
Democratic member of the
United States House of Representatives since
1997, representing the 1st District of
Maine(
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Allen was first elected in
1996, defeating
Republican incumbent
James Longley Jr. 55%-45%. Since then Allen has been reelected with 60% in
1998 over Ross Connolly, 60% in
2000 over Jane Amero, 64% in
2002 over Steven Joyce, and 60% in
2004 over Charlie Summers.
He was born in
Portland, Maine, and educated at
Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine before winning a
Rhodes Scholarship to
Wadham College in the
University of Oxford. After Oxford, he went on to
Harvard University, and was a lawyer, a staff member for Governor
Kenneth M. Curtis and for Senator
Edmund S. Muskie, and
Mayor of
Portland, Maine before entering the House.
Though he has served on a variety of standing committees of the House, his primary areas of interest have been campaign finance reform and prescription drug pricing.
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