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Eugene Allen
Eugene Allen (July 14, 1919 – March 31, 2010)[1] was an American waiter and butler. He worked for the White House for 34 years until he retired in 1986.[1] He served eight presidents of the United States.[1] He began working at the White House in 1952.[1] Allen's life was the inspiration for the movie The Butler, released in 2013.[2]
Allen earned the highest rank of butlers serving in the White House. At the Maître d'hôtel in 1981, President Ronald Reagan[3] invited Allen and his wife Helene to a state dinner at the White House. The dinner was in honor of Helmut Kohl.
Allen was born in Scottsville, Virginia on July 14, 1919. He received no formal schooling. He began working as a waiter at a pool club. Allen met his wife Helene in 1942. They had a son, Charles Allen.[4] Helene wanted to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, but she died the day before the election, on November 3, 2008.[5]
Allen died at a hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland, from kidney failure. He was aged 90.[1] God Redeemed His Broken Life Eugene Allen I spent most of my life in the prisons of my mind with drugs, crime, and anger from many years of abuse as a child growing up. My choices of addiction and crime forged a path through the dark forest of evil that led me to serve thirty years of my life behind prison walls. I have written several songs that I sing on God Tube, written and published poetry, written several editorials and columns for local newspapers, and play guitar as a hobby. I have organized walk-a-thons for both, Special Olympics, and Victims of Crimes, for United Way of America. I have been briefly on 20/20, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. I now write devotionals to help families whose children are in prison, addicted, or in rehab as well as helping and praying for victims of crime. I have three books I have written, Moments of Hope, Wounded Hearts, and A Broken Life Restored, Eugene Allen, Amazon. I do not make money on them. Sold at printing cost only. My treasures are in Heaven. I believe that until any addict or criminal can realize, how to grieve unresolve Rubenstein Center Scholarship Eugene Allen served in the White House for 34 years. Assisting eight presidents, Allen’s top priority was to make the White House a comfortable residence for each chief executive and his family. Allen was born in 1919 on a plantation farm near Scottsville in central Virginia.1 During his youth, he worked as a waiter at a resort in Virginia and at a country club in Washington, D.C.2 He met his wife Helene at a party in 1942 and they married soon after. They had one child—a son, named Charles.3 Allen first heard about a job opening at the White House in 1952 and decided to meet with Alonzo Fields, who served as White House maître d’.4 Even though Allen was not searching for new employment, he accepted a job as a pantry man. He washed dishes, stocked cabinets and shined silverware. When Allen accepted this position at the White House, he did not expect to witness some of the most pivotal movements of the twentieth century. Allen observed social changes that would not only transform race relations across the country, but also inside the W
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