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Allen (CHARLES HERBERT an It)

CHARLES HERBERT, an It is metaphor extended to the minutest details, as in "Pilgrim's Progress." Mass., April 15, 1848; was graduated at Amherst College in 1869; served in both branches of the State Legislature, and in Congress in 1885-1889; was defeated as the Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1891; and succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in May, 1898. On the passage by Congress of the Porto Rico Tariff and Civil Government bill, in April, 1900, the President appointed him the first civil governor of the island. He became president of ment bill, in April, 1900, the President 1913.