Harris & Ewing. Photographs of Asa Leonard Allen, approximately 1930-1940. 5 photographs. Location: MISC:A, OS:A. Asa Leonard Allen was a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Louisiana. He represented the Eighth Congressional District as a Democrat. He served eight terms, but did not run for a ninth term because George Shannon "Doc" Long wanted the position and Allen was loyal to the Long family.The Photographs of Asa Leonard Allen include five photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. A 1944 photograph includes Allen with a group witnessing President Franklin Roosevelt signing the GI Bill of Rights in the Oval Office. Another photograph depicts Allen with a woman who presumably is his wife and another depicts Allen working at his law office in 1930. Two photographs are undated portraits taken by photographers Harris & Ewing. Mss. 5130.