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词条 Tom Allen
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Early political career

  3. U.S. House

     Tenure  Committees 

  4. Election history

  5. Footnotes

  6. External links

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| name =Tom Allen
| image name =Tom Allen 110th Congressional portrait.JPG
| state = Maine
| district = 1st
| preceded = Jim Longley
| succeeded = Chellie Pingree
| term_start = January 3, 1997
| term_end = January 3, 2009
| office2 = 110th Mayor of Portland, Maine
| term_start2 = 1991
| term_end2 = 1992
| preceded2 = Peter O'Donnell
| succeeded2 = Charles Harlow
| party =Democratic
| birth_date= Thomas Hodge Allen
{{birth date and age|1945|04|16}}
| birth_place =Portland, Maine, U.S.
| alma_mater =Bowdoin College (BA)
Oxford University (BPhil)
Harvard Law School (JD)
| profession =attorney, political assistant
| spouse = Diana Allen
| residence =Portland, Maine
| religion = Non-denominational Protestant
}}

Thomas Hodge Allen (born April 16, 1945) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives representing {{ushr|Maine|1|}}, and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008 against Republican incumbent senator Susan Collins. Allen lost to Collins (61.5% to 38.5%).

Allen was first elected in 1996, defeating Republican incumbent James Longley, Jr. with 55 percent of votes cast to Longley's 45 percent. Allen was re-elected five times, receiving over 55 percent of the vote each time in his district, until his defeat in his 2008 run for the U.S. Senate. After, Allen was appointed president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers and began his term on May 1, 2009.[1] His book Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress came out in 2013.

Early life

Allen was born in Portland, Maine to Genevieve ("Sukey") Lahee and Charles W. Allen.[2] He graduated from Deering High School. He went on to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Wadham College in the University of Oxford. During this time he became friends with fellow Rhodes scholar Bill Clinton. After Oxford he went on to Harvard Law School and practiced as a lawyer.

Early political career

He entered the field of politics when he became a staff member for Governor Kenneth M. Curtis and later for Senator Edmund S. Muskie. Allen was elected to the city council of Portland, Maine in 1989 and served as the city's mayor between 1991 and 1992 before winning election to the House. Allen ran for governor in 1994, losing to Joe Brennan in the Democratic primary.

U.S. House

Tenure

Allen fought Republican efforts to weaken environmental rollbacks between 1996 and 2007{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}. Allen called for a pay-as-you-go system that would require offsets to pay for new tax cuts and new spending while on the Budget Committee, much like the system Democrats enacted in their first 100 hours of Congressional control in the 110th Congress.

Allen has made health care, campaign finance reform, and small business his legislative priorities.

Committees

  • House Energy and Commerce Committee
    • Subcommittee on Health
    • Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee
    • Environment and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
  • House Budget Committee
  • House Affordable Medicines Task Force (Co-Chairman)
  • House Oceans Caucus

Election history

{{s-start}}		 Year Office Winner Party Votes % Opponent Party Votes % Opponent Party Votes %
|-
| 1996
| rowspan=6 | {{ushr|Maine|1|Maine's
1st
congressional
district}}
| rowspan=6 nowrap {{Party shading/Democratic}} |Tom Allen
| rowspan=6 {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Dem.
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 173,745
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 55.32
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Jim Longley Jr. (Inc.)
| rowspan=6 {{Party shading/Republican}} | Rep.
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 140,354
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 44.68
|colspan=4|
|-
| 1998
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 134,336
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 60.33
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Ross Connelly
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 79,160
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 35.55
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | Eric Greiner
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | Ind.
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | 9,182
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | 4.12
|-
| 2000
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 202,823
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 59.81
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Jane Amero
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 123,915
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 36.54
| {{Party shading/Libertarian}} | J. Frederic Staples
| {{Party shading/Libertarian}} | Lib.
| {{Party shading/Libertarian}} | 12,356
| {{Party shading/Libertarian}} | 3.64
|-
| 2002
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 172,646
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 63.81
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Steven Joyce
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 97,931
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 36.19
|colspan=4|
|-
| 2004
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 219,077
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 59.74
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Charlie Summers
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 147,663
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 40.26
|colspan=4|
|-
| 2006
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 168,709
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | 60.67
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Darlene Curley
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 87,589
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | 31.50
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | Dexter Kamilewicz
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | Ind.
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | 21,792
| {{Party shading/Independent}} | 7.84{{s-end}}{{Election box begin | title=Maine U.S. Senate Election 2008}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Susan Collins (incumbent)
|votes = 444,587
|percentage = 61.5
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Tom Allen
|votes = 278,651
|percentage = 38.5
|change =
}}{{Election box end}}

Footnotes

1. ^Tom Allen {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508091419/http://publishers.org/staff/tomallen/ |date=2015-05-08 }} Association of American Publishers
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/reps/allen.htm|title=Genealogy|work=rootsweb.com|accessdate=12 September 2015}}

External links

  • {{CongLinks | congbio=a000357 | votesmart= | fec=H6ME01157 | congress= }}
  • Rep. Tom Allen at PoliticalBase.com
  • {{C-SPAN|tomallen04}}
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