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Allen Towner Treadway (September 16, 1867 – February 16, 1947) was a Massachusetts Republican 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, Stockbridg ...
, to William Denton Treadway and Harriet (Heaton) Treadway. Treadway graduated from
Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zepha ...
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 (United States), state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into ...
in 1904, and
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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 The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
. Treadway represented
Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
'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, 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 Pre ...
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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 Pre ...


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References

* 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 Politicians from Berkshire County, Massachusetts Amherst College alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts 20th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Massachusetts-Representative-stub