[2] Generally forward-looking in his outlook, he hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home in Wichita, Kansas.

The court plan attracted nationwide interest; Allen debated American Federation of Labor president Samuel Gompers on the issue at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 28, 1920.

White won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial "To an Anxious Friend," published July 27, 1922, opposing the law.

[5] After leaving the governorship, Allen was U.S. Special Commissioner for Near East Relief in Armenia, Turkey, Greece, and Southern Russia.

In April 1929, he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused when Charles Curtis resigned to become Vice President.