sentences:  In 1832, Allen successfully ran for election to the U.S. Congress, and was a member of the 23rd United States Congress, serving for a year from March 4, 1833 to March 4, 1835.In the 1834 election, voters in Harrison, Lewis and Preston counties elected Allen as their Commonwealth’s Attorney (state prosecutor).He served for about a year before Virginia's General Assembly elected him as Judge for the seventeenth Circuit in 1836.