Allen Barbee

Allen Cromwell Barbee (December 18, 1912 – February 11, 2004) was an American politician.

He graduated from Spring Hope High School in Spring Hope, North Carolina and received a football scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Barbee founded the local newspaper, the Spring Hope Enterprise in 1947.

He won his first election to the North Carolina House of Representatives in November 1960, and left the office to contest the Democratic nomination for the 1972 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, which went to Jim Hunt.

Barbee returned to the state house after winning the 1974 state legislative elections, and served continuously through 1987,[4] when he was defeated by Roy Cooper in the Democratic primary.