George Allen

He ran in the 26th House District which was then composed of two seats.

He placed third in a field of four candidates.

George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952) is an American politician.

Allen was born in Whittier, California on March 8, 1952.

He and his family lived there until 1957.

They moved to the suburbs of Chicago after George Sr. was hired with the Chicago Bears.

Then, the family moved back to Palos Verdes in Southern California after Allen's father was named head coach of the Los Angeles Rams in 1966.

Allen graduated in 1970 from Palos Verdes High School, where he was a member of the falconry club and the car club.

He was also quarterback of the varsity football team.

He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, for a year.

His father had in the meantime taken over the head coaching duties with the Washington Redskins in 1970 and the younger Allen transferred to the University of Virginia, in 1971, where he received a B.A. degree with distinction in history in 1974.

He was class president in his fourth year at UVA, and played on the UVA football and rugby teams.

In 1976, he was the chairman of the "Young Virginians for Ronald Reagan".

Out of law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Glen Morgan Williams of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

After graduating, Allen completed a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1977.

Allen's first race for the Virginia House of Delegates was in 1979, two years after he graduated from law school.

He ran again in 1982 for the House in the 58th House District and won the election, defeating incumbent Democrat James B. Murray, whose previous 24th House District was eliminated after redistricting, by 25 votes out of nearly 14,000 cast.

The son of National Football League head coach George Allen, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1991, resigning after he won a special election for Virginia's 7th congressional district in November 1991.

He faced Murray again in a 1983 rematch, defeating him 53%–47%.

He was a delegate from 1983 to 1991, representing parts of Albemarle and Nelson counties near Charlottesville.

Allen was a strong advocate for the death penalty, and actively supported expanding it in Virginia.

For several years in a row, Allen introduced a bill that would add murder in commission of an attempted robbery to the list of capital crimes.

Each year, the bill died in the House Courts of Justice Committee.

Allen would continue to collect newspaper clippings for his file and followed every murder in the state.

Allen supported a statewide referendum on whether or not to create a state lottery system.

He ran unopposed in 1985, 1987, and 1989.

The seat he held was the same one held by Thomas Jefferson.

In 1986, he proposed a referendum that would allow assets of illegal drug dealers to go to law enforcement.

Incumbent Republican U.S. Representative D. French Slaughter Jr., of Virginia's 7th congressional district, decided to resign because of a series of strokes.

After his district was eliminated during redistricting, he declined to run for a full term in 1992, instead running for Governor of Virginia in the 1993 election.

He defeated Democratic Attorney General of Virginia Mary Sue Terry by 58.3% against 40.9%.

A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 67th governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998 and as a United States senator from Virginia from 2001 to 2007.

Barred by term limits from seeking reelection to a second term in 1997, he worked in the private sector until the 2000 election in which he ran for the United States Senate, defeating two-term Democratic incumbent Chuck Robb.

Allen's father, George Herbert Allen, was a National Football League (NFL) coach who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

Allen ran for reelection in the 2006 election, but after a close and controversial race, he was defeated by Democratic former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb.

During the 2006 senatorial campaign, it was revealed that Allen's mother, Henrietta Lumbroso, was born to Sephardic Jewish parents in Tunisia.

In a 2006 debate, Allen referred to his mother as being "French-Italian, with a little Spanish blood in her."

He has a younger sister, Jennifer, an author and correspondent for NFL Network, and two brothers, including Bruce Allen, a former NFL team executive.

When Webb decided to retire, Allen ran for his old seat again in the 2012 election but was defeated again, this time by fellow former governor Tim Kaine.

Allen now serves on the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors of Young America's Foundation, where he is a Reagan Ranch Presidential Scholar.