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	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > George Mifflin Dallas, 11th Vice President (1845-1849)
		George Mifflin Dallas was born in Philadelphia on July 10, 1792, the second of Alexander and Arabella Smith Dallas' six children.
		Dallas continued to be sensitive about the administration's distribution of major appointments, as he sought to strengthen his Pennsylvania political base in order to weaken the Buchanan faction and enhance his own presidential prospects.
		Dallas told his wife that he was tempted to return home, leaving his Senate duties to a president pro tempore, but he felt obligated to remain at the Capitol for the important business of receiving the presidential electoral ballots, addressed to his attention, that were then arriving from the individual states.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_George_Dallas.htm (6119 words)

	George M. Dallas
		George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 - December 31, 1864) was a Senator from Pennsylvania and a Vice President of the United States.
		Mifflin was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831.
		Mifflin is the great-great-granduncle of Senator Claiborne Pell[?] of Rhode Island.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/George_M._Dallas.html (281 words)

	George Mifflin Dallas - LoveToKnow 1911
		GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS (1792-1864), American statesman and diplomat, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of July 1792.
		He graduated at Princeton in 1810 at the head of his class; then studied law in the office of his father, Alexander J. Dallas, the financier, and was admitted to the bar in 1813.
		From 1833 to 1835 Dallas was attorney-general of Pennsylvania, and from 1835 to 1839 was minister to Russia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /George_Mifflin_Dallas (430 words)

	George M. Dallas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dallas resumed the practice of law, was attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1835, and served as the Grand Master of Freemasons in Pennsylvania in 1835 [1].
		Dallas was 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 4, 1849.
		Dallas was the son of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander J. Dallas and is the great-great-granduncle of former U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_M._Dallas (488 words)

	Biography of George Mifflin Dallas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792—December 31, 1864) was a Senator from Pennsylvania and the eleventh Vice President of the United States.
		Dallas was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831.
		Dallas was the son of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander J. Dallas and is the great-great-granduncle of U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island.
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /d/Dallas_George_Mifflin.html (316 words)

	West's Encyclopedia of American Law \| Dallas, George Mifflin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Mifflin Dallas was born July 10, 1792, to statesman ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS.
		Dallas performed the duties of secretary to Gallatin and was commissioned in 1814 by the American delegates at the Ghent Peace Conference to relay the terms of peace to the British.
		Dallas returned to Philadelphia and served as deputy attorney general before becoming mayor in 1829 for a three-year period.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/dallas-george-mifflin/print (152 words)

	George Mifflin Dallas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1844, Dallas was elected vice president on the Democratic ticket along with James K. Polk.
		Dallas was later appointed (1856) minister to Great Britain and was succeeded (1861) in that post by Charles Francis Adams.
		Dallas conducted the negotiations leading to the Dallas-Clarendon Convention, signed in 1856, which set a basis for the settlement of difficulties in Central America.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Dallas-G.html (237 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > George Mifflin Dallas, 11th Vice President (1845-1849)
		George Mifflin Dallas was born in Philadelphia on July 10, 1792, the second of Alexander and Arabella Smith Dallas' six children.
		Dallas, believing that Benton's concern stemmed from an effort to curb Foote's behavior and "to excuse his own silent disregard of it in that way," instructed the Sergeant at Arms to ban liquor on the Senate side of the Capitol, except for members claiming to require it for medicinal purposes.
		Dallas told his wife that he was tempted to return home, leaving his Senate duties to a president pro tempore, but he felt obligated to remain at the Capitol for the important business of receiving the presidential electoral ballots, addressed to his attention, that were then arriving from the individual states.
	senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_George_Dallas.htm (6119 words)

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		Cockrell believed that it was George Mifflin Dallas, vice-president of the United States during the administration of president James K. Polk.
		Dallas County is generally believed to have been named for George Mifflin Dallas since Polk County, named for President Polk, was created on March 30, 1846, the same day that Dallas County was created.
		George Mifflin Dallas had no documented interest in Texas until he made a casual reference favoring Texas statehood in an 1844 letter to a senator from Mississippi--again, after the town of Dallas, Texas was named.
	www.ci.dallas.tx.us /cso/archives/Origin_of_Dallas.htm (467 words)

	George M. Dallas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dallas was in 1829 elected mayor, and, on the elevation of Gem Jackson to the presidency, in 1829 was appointed U. attorney for that district.
		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.
		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.
	www.famousamericans.net /hallofusa/usvicepresidents/GEORGEDALLAS.COM (998 words)

	George Mifflin Dallas — FactMonster.com
		Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792–1864, American statesman, vice president of the United States (1845–49), b.
		After serving as solicitor (1815–17) of the Bank of the United States, Dallas was city attorney (1817–19) and mayor (1819) of Philadelphia.
		Dallas was later appointed (1856) minister to Great Britain and was succeeded (1861) in that post by Charles Francis
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0814529 (217 words)

	Welcome to Dallas, NC
		A small, residential town, Dallas is approximately three miles north of the City of Gastonia, and within 20-miles northwest of the Queen City of Charlotte.
		Named after George Mifflin Dallas, the 11th Vice President of the United States, Dallas was officially incorporated in 1863.
		This past fiscal year, Dallas had the honor to win every grant it had applied for to enhance its operations, business development, and community developments efforts: The Town's award winning departments include: Dallas Parks and Recreation Dept, Public Works Dept, Police Dept, Fire Dept., and several citizens in the community were awarded grants.
	www.dallasnc.net (295 words)

	Dallas Official Site
		The City of Dallas, Georgia was founded on May 14, 1852 as the county seat of Paulding County, on property sold to the State of Georgia by Garrett Spinks.
		The city was named for George Mifflin Dallas, Vice-President of the United States under President James Knox Polk.
		Prior to its founding, Dallas was a crossroads of Cherokee Indian paths, and the abundance of natural springs brought settlers into the area.
	dallas.townware.com /site (196 words)

	Welcome to Dallas County, ARGenweb
		The County of Dallas in Arkansas, was created on 1 January 1845 from Bradley and Clark Counties.
		Dallas County is bound on the north by Hot Spring and Grant Counties; On the east by Cleveland County; on the south by Calhoun and Ouachita Counties; and on the west by Clark County.
		Dallas County is well watered by the Ouachita River on its west border, on the east by Moro creek and through the center are Saline, Cypress and Tulip creeks.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ardallas (156 words)

	Vice President George Dallas
		The city of Dallas, Texas is named after him.
		He was the son of Alexander Dallas, Secretary of the Treasury under President Madison.
		Dallas normally supported high tariffs, but during his term as Vice President he supported Polk's low tariff policies, which really pissed off his home state; so much so that he was hung in efigee there and he had to move his family away for their own safety.
	www.christers.net /veeps/george-dallas.html (766 words)

	The religion of George M. Dallas, U.S. Vice-President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George M. Dallas served as U.S. Vice-President from 1845-49 under Pres.
		Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864) also known as George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania.
		Son of Alexander James Dallas; uncle by marriage of Robert John Walker; great-great-granduncle of Claiborne de Borda Pell.
	www.adherents.com /people/pd/George_Dallas.html (253 words)

	DALLAS, George Mifflin (1792-1864) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 [1792-1864]: The Other Vice-President from Princeton.” In The Lives of Eighteen from Princeton, edited by Willard Thorp, pp.
		Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, United States Minister to Russia, 1837-1839.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=D000011 (137 words)

	Dallas County, Texas
		On March 30, 1846, Dallas County was officially formed by order of the state legislature from portions of Nacogdoches and Robertson counties, and named probably for George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States under James K. Polk (see DALLAS, TEXAS).
		At Dallas, the temporary county seat, a log cabin was built to serve as a courthouse.
		A runoff election was held after the first vote yielded 191 votes for Dallas, 178 for Hord's Ridge, and 101 for Cedar Springs.
	www.reynoldsrecords.com /texas/dallas.html (123 words)

	Map of Dallas, Center - Aaccessmaps.com
		Some say that Dallas, in central Texas on the banks of the Trinity River, is the heart of Texas both culturally and economically.
		Candidates include: George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States, 1845-49, his brother, Commodore Alexander J. Dallas, United States Navy, and Joseph Dallas who settled near the new town in 1843.
		In 1861 Dallas voters voted 741 to 237 to secede from the Union.
	www.aaccessmaps.com /show/map/dallas_downtown (226 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Consists primarily of selected correspondence of George Mifflin Dallas, nineteenth-century American senator and vice-president.
		George Mifflin Dallas, a senator from Pennsylvania and a vice president (1845-1849) of the United States, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 10, 1792.
		The collection consists of selected correspondence of Dallas, as well as a rough draft of an oration he gave at Princeton on September 27, 1831.
	libserv12.princeton.edu /ead/xml/mss/C1041.EAD.xml (331 words)

	George Mifflin Dallas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was the son of Alexander J. Dallas (1759-1817), who had been secretary of the treasury (1814-16).
		A Democrat, Dallas held various local offices in Pennsylvania As vice-president he presided over the Senate debates on the Mexican War and the Wilmot Proviso.
		He secured an agreement clarifying Britain's role in Central America and a disavowal of Britain's traditional claim to the right of searching at sea the ships of other nations.
	www.open.org /~pchs/Dallas.html (71 words)

	Dallas, George Mifflin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864), eleventh vice president of the United States (1845-1849), was a graduate of Princeton in the Class of 1810.
		His father was a prosperous lawyer and man of affairs in Philadelphia who served as Madison's Secretary of the Treasury 1814-1816.
		The younger Dallas entered public life three years after he left Princeton as secretary to the chairman of the commission that negotiated the treaty ending the War of 1812.
	mondrian.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/dallas_george_mifflin.html (152 words)

	GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS ... - Online Information article about GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS ...
		Dallas, the financier, and was admitted to the See also:
		After-wards, however, his views changed and he opposed the bank.
		From 1833 to 1835 Dallas was attorney-See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DALLAS_GEORGE_MIFFLIN_1792_1864.html (732 words)

	Skyscrapers/Wolkenkratzer/Wolkenkrabbers/Grattes-ciel Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
		Dallas was 'born' in 1841 when John Neely Bryan, a Tennessee Lawyer, stumbled on a piece of land
		Dallas County was created in 1846 and named after George Mifflin Dallas,
		This tower was used as the office building of the Ewing family in the Dallas TV series.
	www.skyscraperpicture.com /dallas.htm (404 words)

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