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See also:DALLAS, See also:GEORGE See also:MIFFLIN (1792-1864) , See also:American states-See also:man and diplomat, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the loth of See also:July 1792. He graduated at See also:Princeton in 1810 at the See also:head of his class; then studied See also:law in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of his See also:father, See also:Alexander J. Dallas, the financier, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1813. In the same See also:year he accompanied See also:Albert See also:Gallatin, as his secretary, to See also:Russia, and in 1814 returned to the See also:United States as the See also:bearer of important dispatches from the American See also:peace commissioners at See also:Ghent. He practised law in New See also:York and Philadelphia, was chosen See also:mayor of Philadelphia in 1828, and in 1829 was appointed by See also:President See also:Jackson, whom he had twice warmly supported for the See also:presidency, United States See also:attorney for the eastern See also:district of Pennsylvania, a position See also:long held by his father. From 1831 to 1833 he was a Democratic member of the United States See also:Senate, in which he advocated a See also:compromise See also:tariff and strongly supported Jackson's position in regard to See also:nullification. On the See also:bank question he was at first at variance with the president; in See also:January 1832 he presented in the Senate a memorial from the bank's president, See also:Nicholas See also:Biddle, and its managers, praying for a recharter, and subsequently he was chairman of a See also:committee which reported a See also:bill re-chartering the institution for a fifteen-year See also:period. After-wards, however, his views changed and he opposed the bank. From 1833 to 1835 Dallas was attorney-See also:general of Pennsylvania, and from 1835 to 1839 was See also:minister to Rus "a. During the following years he was engaged in a long stru gle with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Buchanan for party leadership in Pennsylvania. He was See also:vice-president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, but the See also:appointment of Buchanan as secretary of See also:state at once shut him off from all See also:hope of party patronage or See also:influence in the See also:Polk See also:administration, and he came to be looked upon as the See also:leader of that See also:body of conservative Democrats of the See also:North, who, while they themselves chafed at the domination of See also:Southern leaders, were disposed to disparage all See also:anti-See also:slavery agitation. By his casting See also:vote at a See also:critical period during the debate in the Senate on the tariff bill of 1846, he irretrievably lost his influence with the protectionist See also:element of his native state, to whom he had given assurances of his support of the See also:Tyler tariff of 1842. For several years after his retirement from office, he devoted himself to his law practice, and in 1856 succeeded James Buchanan as United States minister to See also:England, where he remained until relieved by See also:Charles See also:Francis See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams in May 1861. During this trying period he represented his See also:country with ability and tact, making every endeavour to strengthen the See also:Union cause in See also:Great See also:Britain. He died at Philadelphia on the 1st of See also:December 1864. He wrote a See also:biographical memoir for an edition of his father's writings, which was published in 1871.
His See also:Diary of his See also:residence in St See also:Petersburg and See also:London was published in Philadelphia in 1892.
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