John J. Allen

This article is about the Ottawa mayor. For other people named John J. Allen, see John Allen.

John J. Allen (August 2, 1871 – June 7, 1935) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1931 to 1933.

He was born in Dungannon in Huron County, Ontario in 1871. In 1900, he came to Ottawa and opened a drug store; eventually, he and his partner, William Cochrane, sold their business to United Drug Stores, later Rexall. Allen and Cochrane later established a brokerage firm. He served as president of the Rotary Club in the city and later served as district governor. During Allen's term as mayor, he initiated repairs of the city sewer system which helped generate employment during the Great Depression.

Allen died of a heart attack in Montreal in 1935 and was buried in the Beechwood Cemetery.

References

Chain of Office: Biographical Sketches of the Early Mayors of Ottawa (1847-1948), Dave Mullington (ISBN 978-1-897113-17-2)

Preceded by Frank H. Plant	Mayor of Ottawa 1931–1933	Succeeded by Patrick Nolan (politician)

Mayors of Ottawa

Bytown (1847–55)	J. Scott J. B. Lewis Hervey Sparrow R.W. Scott Turgeon Friel

Ottawa (1855–2001)	J. B. Lewis McGillivray Workman Friel Dickinson Lyon Rochester Martineau Featherston Lyon-Fellowes Waller Bangs Mackintosh St. Jean Bate McDougal Stewart Erratt Birkett Durocher Cox Borthwick Bingham Payment Morris Davidson Cook J. Ellis Hastey D. Scott Champagne Hopewell Hinchey J. Ellis McVeity Porter Fisher Plant Watters Balharrie A. Ellis Allen Nolan J. E. S. Lewis Bourque Goodwin Whitton Nelms Reid Fogarty Benoit Greenberg Dewar Durrell Laviolette Holzman Watson Higdon

Ottawa (2001 amalgamation – present)	Chiarelli O'Brien Watson

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