Death and Honors
Allen died in the governor's mansion of a brain hemorrhage. At the time of his death, he was the Democratic nominee for Long's vacated seat in the United States Senate. He had won the Senate nomination with an unprecedented 200,000-vote plurality, but he did not live to assume the office, which went thereafter to Allen J. Ellender of Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish.
Allen is honored by the O.K. Allen Bridge across the Red River between Alexandria and Pineville.
Allen Hall on the Louisiana State University Campus, is named in his honor.
O.K. Allen Hall on the University of Louisiana (Lafayette) campus is named in his honor.
Allen is the subject of the Leadbelly blues tune, "Governor OK Allen Blues".
His younger brother, Asa Leonard Allen, represented the former Eighth Congressional District, based in central Louisiana, in the United States House of Representatives from 1937-1953.
In 1993, Allen was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, along with the two Long governors, Huey and Earl.
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