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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaDALLAS, George Mifflin
(1792—1864)
Senate Years of Service:
1831-1833
Party:
Jacksonian
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; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1810; studied law; 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.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Ambacher, Bruce. “George M. Dallas: Leader of the ’Family’ Party.” Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1970; Belohlavek, John M. George Mifflin Dallas: Jacksonian Patrician
. State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977.
Ambacher, Bruce Irwin. “George M. Dallas and the Bank War.” Pennsylvania History
42 (April 1975): 117-35.
___. “George M. Dallas: Leader of the ‘Family’ Party.” Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1971.
Belohlavek, John M. “Dallas, The Democracy, and the Bank War of 1832.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
96 (July 1972): 377-90.
___. George Mifflin Dallas: Jacksonian Patrician
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977.
Burt, Struthers. “George Mifflin Dallas [1792-1864]: The Other Vice-President from Princeton.” In The Lives of Eighteen from Princeton
, edited by Willard Thorp, pp. 178-91. 1946. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
Dallas, George Mifflin, ed. Life and Writings of Alexander James Dallas.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1871.
Dallas, Julia, ed. A Series of Letters from London Written During the Years 1856, ‘57, ‘58, ‘59, and ‘60.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1869.
Dallas, Susan, ed. Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, United States Minister to Russia, 1837-1839.
1892. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1970.
Nichols, Roy F. “The Library: The Mystery of the Dallas Papers.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
73 (July 1949): 349-92; (October 1949): 475-517.
___. “The Missing Diaries of George Mifflin Dallas.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
75 (July 1951): 295-338.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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