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Henry Justin Allen was born on September 11, 1868 in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the second of four children and elder of two sons of John and Rebecca Elizabeth (Goodwin) Allen. Both parents were natives of Pennsylvania, the father of Scottish, the mother of English ancestry. In 1870 John Allen moved his family to a farm in Clay County, Kansas, but lost it through a mortgage foreclosure in 1879, an event that soured his son on agriculture.
Allen studied at Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1890, but left after two years to begin newspaper work.
Allen's first job was as a reporter on the Salina (Kansas) Daily-Republican, published by Joseph L. Bristow. He soon assumed the duties of chief editorial writer and advertising manager. In 1895 he joined Bristow in buying the Ottawa (Kansas) Herald, and in 1903 the Salina Daily Republican-Journal; Allen also bought interests in three other papers on his own. During these years his editorial efforts to revitalize the Republican party in Kansas contributed to the decline of the Populists. The partnership with Bristow was dissolved in 1905, and Allen assumed full ownership of the Herald; but two years later he sold all his newspaper interests and bought the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon, which he held until 1928. A crusading journalist, he used the Beacon as a means of exposing local corruption, suppressing saloons and the redlight district, and promoting the city-manager form of government. In 1914 he ran unsuccessfully as the Progressive candidate for governor.
Allen was an advocate of military preparedness, and in 1917, after America's entry into World War I, he and White went together to France as Red Cross officers. Allen's criticism of the military for its slowness in communicating with relatives of the dead and wounded nearly got him cashiered, but with White's assistance he was transferred to duty with the Y. M. C. A. Meanwhile, in 1918, Allen won the Republican nomination for governor of Kansas; and although he was in France during the campaign, he was elected by the record margin of 150, 000 votes. He was reelected in 1920.
Following tradition, Allen did not seek re-election as governor in 1922, but he remained active in both politics and publishing. He served in 1923 as a commissioner for Near East Relief, surveying the problems of refugees, and in 1926-1927 as head of the department of journalism of the University World Travel School, a converted cruise ship. He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1929 to fill the unexpired term of Charles Curtis, who had just been elected vice-president, but lost to a Democrat when running for election to a full term in the depression year of 1930. Active in every presidential campaign through 1944, Allen served as national publicity director for the G. O. P. in 1928 and 1932. Allen sold the Wichita Beacon in 1928, but from 1935 to 1940 he was part owner and editor of the Topeka (Kans. ) State Journal.
As a world traveler during the 1930's, Allen published several articles on international affairs. In 1941, as honorary national chairman of the Save the Children Federation, he visited nurseries established in England with American aid. Hard-won affluence and cultural enthusiasm were reflected in the Allens' patronage of art in Wichita and in the home designed for them in 1917 by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
He died of a cerebral thrombosis in Wichita at the age of eighty-one and left an estate of more than $2. 5 million.
Allen is best known as one of the Kansas’ leading politicians, newspaper editors and publishers. As governor, Allen advocated a number of reforms, including a bill to help farm tenants purchase land, a workmen's compensation law, and a new state constitutional convention, but little of his program passed the legislature. An enemy of the Ku Klux Klan, he instituted a suit in 1922 to oust the society from Kansas. Allen was perhaps best known for the controversial Kansas Industrial Act of 1920, passed by a special session of the legislature after a prolonged miners' strike had brought a statewide shortage of coal. The measure effectively forbade strikes in a number of industries, including food production and fuel mining. It also created a court of industrial relations empowered to hear and settle labor disputes, and even to set minimum wages and maximum hours.
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Allen was a member of the Methodist church.
At first Allen was a staunch Republican, but he bolted the party in 1912 to support the Progressive presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt. But with that party's decline he joined his fellow editor William Allen White and other prominent Kansas Progressives in returning to the G. O. P. in 1916.
Allen was a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and other fraternities, and of the Wichita Club, Kansas Club, Country Club and Riverside Club.
Allen was small, portly, and bald in appearance. He was also considered a gifted orator throughout his career.
On October 19, 1892, Allen married Elsie Jane Nuzman of Circleville, Kansas, whom he had met at Baker. Of their four children, only one, Henrietta, survived childhood.
