The New International Encyclopædia/Allen, Elisha Hunt

ALLEN, Elisha Hunt (1804-83). An American politician and Hawaiian justice, born at New Salem, Mass. He graduated at Williams College, was called to the Massachusetts Bar, and was a member of the State Legislature of Maine from 1836 to 1841, and in 1846. In 1849 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, and from 1852 to 1856 was United States consul at Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1857-76 he was Chancellor and Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands, and from that time was Minister of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.