Thomas M. Allen (Georgia politician)

{{short description|American politician}}

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| state_house = Georgia

| district = Jasper County

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Thomas M. Allen was an American Baptist preacher who served as a representative in the Georgia Assembly during the Reconstruction Era. He was African American.{{cite book|author=Paul A. Cimbala|title=Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NF0W2UEi4ngC&pg=PA309|date=1 March 2003|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2511-8|pages=309–}} He was elected in 1868, representing Jasper County as a Republican.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpmjRm4cdswC&pg=PA106 |page=106 |title=The Way it was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia |author=Donald Lee Grant |publisher=University of Georgia Press|year=1993|isbn=9780820323299 }} Allen escaped assassination by the Ku Klux Klan after they murdered his brother-in-law by mistake during their attempt on his life.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6O_XYBMhNYAC&pg=PA73 |page=73 |title=The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America |author=Wyn Craig Wade|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998|isbn=9780195123579 }}