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Thomas H. Allen was born April 16 1945 , in Portland, Maine . He has been a Democratic member of the United States House Of Representatives since 1997 , representing the 1st District of Maine ( map ).

He 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.



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  Title Congressperson<br>Maine's 1st District