George Edward Allen Sr. (March 31, 1885 - July 21, 1972) was a senator from the state of Virginia from 1916 to 1920 and a lawyer who, with his three sons, founded Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen. He was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia and studied law at The University of Virginia. In 1910 he began practicing law in Victoria, Virginia and in 1914 became the youngest mayor in the city's history. After practicing law for more than twenty years in southern Virginia and after serving as state senator, he moved his family and legal practice to the state capital Richmond during the depression.
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Legal career
Allen is a GP who represents various clients of Black Muslim prisoners to depositors in failed state banks. His legal interests are vast, and as a result of his long career he handles cases involving various problems including magic, alienation of affection, obscenity, and election disputes and the level of utility being contested.
In the early 1950s, when his son decided to dedicate their legal practice exclusively to personal injury law, Allen refused to limit his own practice. During this period he conducted a civil rights case that represented Fred Wallace, an African American law student at Harvard University who was indicted in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where he had done civil rights work, with several minor offenses and crimes. Although Allen approached a white lawyer to ask for help in Wallace's defense, no one would associate themselves in the case. After failing in his attempt to move the case to federal court and after exhausting his appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, Allen reached an agreement with the prosecutor where the crime and several offenses were dismissed. and the remaining violation is concluded through the payment of a small fine. After that, Mr. Wallace graduated from law school and obtained his license to practice law in New York State. In recognition of his work in the Wallace case, The American College of Trial Lawyers gave Allen the first Prize for Brave Advocacy.
In 1971, Allen made an appeal from a North Carolina homeowner who has brought the Federal Tort Claims Act action against the United States for property damage in his home allegedly caused by sonic explosions of military aircraft carrying out training missions in North Carolina. He presented the case before the United States Supreme Court just months before his death at the age of 87.
Allen served as President of the Richmond Bar Association in 1959 and was a founding member and President of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (1961). He was also elected a colleague from the American College of Trial Lawyers and a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.
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