Birth Name: Allen Bernard West
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia
Date of Birth: February 7, 1961
Ethnicity: African-American
Allen West is an American politician. A Republican, he represented Florida’s 22nd District from 2011 to 2013.
Allen’s paternal grandmother was Katie Maude West (the daughter of Allen West and Harriet Brown).
Source: Genealogy of Allen West (focusing on his father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
photo by US House of Representatives ([1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons