Biography

08/05/1812 - 03/23/1878

ALLISON, John, a Representative from Beaver County; born, August 5, 1812 in Beaver, Beaver County, Pa.; paymaster, United States Army (1861-1865, Civil War); engaged, McKee & Graham, hatting business (1829-1833); owner, hat business (1833-1843); lawyer (1846-1850); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1847 term; reelected to the House for the 1848 and 1850 terms; elected, delegate, Whig State Convention (1848); elected, United States Congress (1850-1853, 1855-1857); elected, delegate, Republican National Convention (1856, 1860); lumberman, Iowa (1857-1861); appointed, Register of the United States Treasury (1869-1878); unsuccessful campaign, United States Senate (1875); died, March 23, 1878 in Washington, District of Columbia; interred, Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum, Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.