George M. Dallas
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George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 – December 31, 1864) was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829 and as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Alexander J. Dallas, the Treasury Secretary of the United States, attended elite preparatory schools before embarking on a legal career.
He served as Albert Gallatin's private secretary and worked with the Treasury Department and the Second Bank of the United States.
He began as a leader of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party's "Family" faction, and Dallas began a rivalry with James Buchanan, the leader of the "Amalgamator" faction.
He served as the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Eastern District, and Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1828 to 1835.
He served Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1831 to 1833, but he declined to run for re-election.
Dallas was appointed by President Martin Van Buren to the position of Minister to Russia, and Dallas served as President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1839. Van Buren's re-election bid in the 1844 presidential election was accepted by Dallas, but James K. Polk received the party's nomination.
Polk's running mate was nominated by the 1844 Democratic National Convention in Dallas, and Polk and Dallas defeated the Whig ticket in the general election.
Dallas, a promoter of expansion and popular sovereignty, has ordered the annexation of all of Mexico during the Mexican–American War.
He attempted to campaign in the 1848 presidential election, but his vote to lower the tariff cut off his base of support in his home state.
Before resigning from public office, Dallas served as the ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1856 to 1861.
Family and early life
George Dallas was born in Philadelphia on Tuesday, 10 July 1792, to Alexander James Dallas and Arabella Smith Dallas (born in Devon, England) in Philadelphia. His father, born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Dr. Robert Dallas and educated in Edinburgh, was the Treasury Secretary under US President James Madison, and he served as the Secretary of War briefly. Dr Dallas left Jamaica in 1764 after mortgaged his house, Dallas Castle, and put it in a trust. This property had 900 acres and 91 slaves. After Thomas Mifflin, another politician who was close friends with his father, George Dallas was given his middle name.
Dallas was the second of six children, one of whom, Alexander, would be the commander of Pensacola Navy Yard. The family lived on Fourth Street in Dallas, with a second home in the countryside that is located along the Schuylkill River. He was educated privately at Quaker-run preparatory schools before attending Princeton University in 1810, where he graduated with highest honors. He was involved in many organizations, including the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, while attending college. He then studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1813.
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Dallas had no enthusiasm for legal service as a young man; he wanted to fight in the War of 1812, a project that he postponed due to his father's refusal. Dallas accepted Albert Gallatin's private secretary, and the pair, along with Gallatin, went to Russia to try to obtain its assistance in peace talks between the UK and the United States right after this. Dallas loved the Russian opportunities he had received while living in Russia, but after six months there, he was ordered to London to see if the War of 1812 could be resolved diplomatically. He arrived in Washington, D.C., in August 1814 and gave a preliminary draft of Britain's peace terms. He was hired by James Madison to become the treasury's treasurer, which is described as a "convenient arrangement" because Dallas' father was serving as the department's secretary at the time. Dallas took time to develop his political acumanism, his greatest vocational interest. He was later appointed as counsel to the Second Bank of the United States. Dallas' father died in 1817, ending Dallas' efforts for a family law practice, and he stopped working for the Second Bank of the United States and becoming the deputy attorney general of Philadelphia, a position he held until 1820.
Political career
Pennsylvania's political climate was volatile after the War of 1812 came to an end, with two factions in the state's Democratic Party fighting for control. One of the Philadelphia-based "Family Party" was led by Dallas, and it disproved the belief that the Constitution of the United States was supreme, that an enlightened national government should exist, with safe tariffs, a robust central banking system, and internal reforms to the nation to foster national commerce. The other group, the "Amalgamators," was led by future President James Buchanan.
After the party took over the city councils, voters named Dallas mayor of Philadelphia as the candidate of the Family Party. However, he grew bored of the position and became the United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania in 1829, a position his father held from 1801 to 1814, and continued in that position until 1831. He won a five-man, eleven-ballot contest in the state legislature in December, enabling him to become the senator from Pennsylvania in order to finish the unexpired term of the former senator who had resigned.
Dallas served less than 15 months, from 13 December 1831 to March 1833. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. Dallas declined to seek re-election in part due to a fight over the Second Bank of the United States, but in part because his wife did not want to leave Philadelphia for Washington.
Dallas resumed practicing law from 1833 to 1835, was the attorney general of Pennsylvania and served as the Grand Master of Freemasons in Pennsylvania in 1835. He was appointed by President Martin Van Buren as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia from 1837 to 1839, when he was recalled at his own initiative. Dallas had been invited to serve as Attorney General but decided against it and restarted his civil service. Dallas worked to help Van Buren win the Democratic nomination over Dallas' fellow Pennsylvanian James Buchanan in the run-up to the 1844 presidential election.