Clifford Allen
| Clifford Allen | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district |
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In office November 25, 1975 – June 18, 1978 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Fulton |
| Succeeded by | Bill Boner |
| Member of the Tennessee Senate | |
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In office 1949-1951 1955-1959 |
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January 6, 1912 Jacksonville, Florida |
| Died | June 18, 1978 (aged 66) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Alma mater | Cumberland School of Law |
Clifford Robertson Allen (January 6, 1912 – June 18, 1978) was a Tennessee attorney and Democratic politician.
Allen was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Friends High School (now Sidwell Friends) in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to the Tennessee bar the same year. He was elected to a first term in the Tennessee State Senate in 1948. In 1950 he first ran for governor of Tennessee in the Democratic primary against incumbent governor Gordon Browning and was defeated in a very close election where Allen's main issue was that the state should start providing free school textbooks to all school children. Running again in 1952 he was again defeated, running third (Frank G. Clement was the winner, with Browning finishing second). Allen was seen by some as the representative of the urban and progressive forces as opposed to those whose support was largely rural, such as Clement. He was also a staunch opponent of Boss Crump of Memphis, and was invariably opposed by the Crump political machine. The rivalry between Allen and Clement was such that on one occasion, health inspectors shut down a downtown Nashville restaurant owned by Allen, who got a court order allowing it to reopen. This was judged by Nashvillians to have been politically motivated, and the restaurant reopened to long lines.
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