John Johnson Allen (August 4, 1842 – January 20, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He attended the City Academy in Burlington, and when he was sixteen he entered the University of Vermont.
Shortly after his graduation, he was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under Benjamin D. Silliman.
[2] In 1873, Allen was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Kings County 2nd District (Wards 3, 4, and 11 of Brooklyn).
[5] He was a director of different corporations, and had a summer homestead in Burlington owned by his family for over a century.
[8] Allen died of pneumonia at his home at 129 Columbia Heights on January 20, 1926.