Joseph Allen (congressman)  Joseph Allen (September 2, 1749 – September 2, 1827) was a member of the eleventh United States Congress from (1810–1811). He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1774. He worked in a business in Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1774, moving to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1776. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1810, serving in that capacity through 1811. He died in Worcester in 1827.