Allen Hudson

{{Short description|American legislator and constable}}

Allen Hudson was a constable and state legislator in South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1874 to 1876 representing Lancaster County.Freedom's Lawmakers page 111{{cite web | title=The 51st General Assembly (1874-1876) | website=Carolana | url=https://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/post_war/sc_late_1800s_51st_general_assembly_members.html | access-date=2023-11-07}} He was African-American.{{cite journal | last=Work | first=Monroe N. | last2=Staples | first2=Thomas S. | last3=Wallace | first3=H. A. | last4=Miller | first4=Kelly | last5=McKinlay | first5=Whitefield | last6=Lacy | first6=Samuel E. | last7=Smith | first7=R. L. | last8=McIlwaine | first8=H. R. | title=Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress | journal=The Journal of Negro History | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=5 | issue=1 | year=1920 | issn=0022-2992 | doi=10.2307/2713503 | pages=84}}