Neal Woodside Allen (1885–1976) was an American politician and businessperson from Portland, Maine.
[1] He was elected to the first city council chosen in December 1923 after the Chamber of Commerce and Ku Klux Klan collaborated to install a council–manager government.
[2] In 1942, he was one of the founding appointees to the Portland Planning Board and regularly served as its chair.
[3] Allen was born in Portland and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1904 Bowdoin College in 1907.
The pair had four sons: Charles, Frederick, Neil, Jr., and Franklin, and two daughters, Louise and Barbara.