Vice President under James K. Polk March 4, 1845 until March 3, 1849
DALLAS, George Mifflin, (great-great-granduncle
of Claiborne Pell), a Senator from Pennsylvania and a vice president of the
United States; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1792; was graduated from the
College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1810; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1813; private secretary to Albert Gallatin, Minister to
Russia; returned in 1814 and commenced the practice of law in New York City;
solicitor of the United States Bank 1815-1817; returned to Philadelphia and was
appointed deputy attorney general in 1817; mayor of Philadelphia October 21,
1828-April 15, 1829; United States district attorney for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania 1829-1831; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Isaac D. Barnard and served from
December 13, 1831, to March 3, 1833; declined to be a candidate for reelection
in 1832; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-second Congress); resumed
the practice of law; attorney general of Pennsylvania 1833-1835; appointed by
President Martin Van Buren as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Russia 1837-1839; when he was recalled at his own request; elected Vice
President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1844 with James K.
Polk and served from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1849; appointed Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain by President
Franklin Pierce 1856-1861; returned to Philadelphia, and died there December 31,
1864; interment in St. Peter’s Churchyard.- -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
George
Mifflin Dallas, statesman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
10 July, 1792; died there. 31 December 1864, was graduated with first-class
honors at Princeton in 1810, and then studied law in his father's office, being
admitted to tile bar in 1813. The same year he received the appointment of
private secretary to Albert Gallatin, and accompanied that gentleman on his
mission to Russia, to negotiate a treaty of peace with England. On his return to
this country, in the following year, he assisted his father for some months in
his duties as secretary of the treasury, and then began the practice of law in
New York City, and was solicitor of the U. S. bank. In 1817 he was appointed
deputy attorney general for Philadelphia County. Taking an active part in
politics, and supporting the candidacy of General Jackson for the presidency in
1824 and 1828, Mr. Dallas was in 1829 elected mayor, and, on the elevation of
Gem Jackson to the presidency, in 1829 was appointed U. S. attorney for that
district. He retained this office till 1831, when he was elected to the U. S.
senate in the place of Isaac D. Barnard, who had resigned. He took a prominent
part in the debates of that body until the expiration of his term, in 1833, when
he declined a re-election, returned to the practice of the law, and filled the
office of attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1833 till 1835.
In
1837 President Van Buren appointed him minister to Russia, which post he
retained till October, 1839, when he was recalled, at his own request, and again
resumed legal practice. George M. Dallas and James Buchanan were for many years
rival leaders of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania, and aspirants for the
presidency of the United States. In May, 1844, the democratic convention at
Baltimore nominated him for vice-president of the United States on the ticket
with James K. Polk for president. The democratic candidates were elected by an
electoral vote of 170 out of 275. The questions of the time were the tariff and
the annexation of Texas. Mr. Polk's election caused the admission of Texas to
the Union just before the close of Mr. Tyler's term of office, but the subject
of the tariff was left for the new administration. The appointment of his rival,
Buchanan, as secretary of state, left Mr. Dallas without influence on the policy
of the administration; but the tie in the senate on the free-trade tariff of
1846, and its adoption by his casting vote, gave him prominence. The House of
Representatives passed abandoning the protective policy, a bill that levied
duties on imports for the purpose of revenue only, in 1846, but when it reached
the senate that body was evenly divided, so that the decision rested with the
vice-president. In giving his vote Mr. Dallas said that, though the bill was
defective, he believed that proof had been furnished that a majority of the
people desired a change, to a great extent, in principle, if not fundamentally;
but in giving the casting vote for a low tariff he violated pledges made to the
protectionists of Pennsylvania that had secured the vote of the state for his
party in the presidential election. His term expired in 1849.
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