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(map).

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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1945 births | American lawyers | Former students of Wadham College, Oxford | Living people | Mayors of Portland, Maine | Members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine | People from Maine | American Rhodes scholars | Current members of the United States House of Representatives