Allen Towner Treadway (September 16, 1867 – February 16, 1947) was a Massachusetts
Republican
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Political ideology
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politician.
Biography
Treadway was born in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,018 at the 2020 census. A year-round resort area, Stockbridge is ...
, to William Denton Treadway and Harriet (Heaton) Treadway.
Treadway graduated from
Amherst College
Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educati ...
in 1886. He served in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...
in 1904, and
President of the Massachusetts Senate
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from 1908 to 1911.
From March 4, 1913, until January 3, 1945, he was a member of the
United States House of Representatives
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Treadway represented
Massachusetts
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's first congressional district for sixteen consecutive terms.
Treadway faced
Raymond Leslie Buell in the 1942 election.
Treadway died in 1947 and is buried in
Stockbridge Cemetery Stockbridge may refer to:
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* Stockbridge, Hampshire
* Stockbridge, West Sussex
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, in his home town of Stockbridge.
Legacy
Treadway once owned the Red Lion Inn in
Stockbridge, the Inn has a room named for him.
See also
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130th Massachusetts General Court (1909)
The 130th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1909 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as Presid ...
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131st Massachusetts General Court (1910)
The 131st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1910 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as Presid ...
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1867 births
1947 deaths
Presidents of the Massachusetts Senate
Republican Party Massachusetts state senators
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
People from Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Amherst College alumni
Burials in Massachusetts
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
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