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 WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN

, of Madison, was born in Midway, Madison County, Ohio, January 28, 1847; removed with his family to Iowa in 1857; was educated in the common schools of Iowa and attended the Upper Iowa University at Fayette for a time, but was not graduated; was a private soldier in Company G, Thirty-Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, during the War of the Rebellion, the last five months of his service being on the staff of Gen. James I. Gilbert; read law at West Union, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar May 31, 1869; practiced law from that time until elected judge of the district court of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska, in the autumn of 1891; removed from Iowa to Nebraska in 1884; was married May 2, 1870; was permanent president of the Nebraska Populist State convention in 1892, and was elected United States Senator, to succeed Algernon Sidney Paddock, February 7, 1893, for the full term of six years, commencing March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.