POLITICIAN

George M. Dallas

1792 - 1864

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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, the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, and U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom from 1856 to 1861. Born in Philadelphia, Dallas was a son of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander J. Dallas, and studied law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1813. He served as the private secretary to Albert Gallatin and worked for the Treasury Department and the Second Bank of the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George M. Dallas has received more than 698,085 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). George M. Dallas is the 11,192nd most popular politician (down from 9,052nd in 2019), the 4,079th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,252nd in 2019) and the 270th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George M. Dallas ranks 11,192 out of 19,576Before him are Acamas, Areus II, Amastrine, Alcetas II of Epirus, Ivonka Survilla, and Gudit. After him are John Nance Garner, Jafar Khan, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Ramón Castilla, Eugen Leviné, and Mariana Pineda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, George M. Dallas ranks 39Before him are Gustav Schwab, Roderick Murchison, Moritz Hauptmann, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Lev Perovski, and Jeanne Jugan. After him are Nodira, José Joaquín de Herrera, George Cruikshank, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Johann Georg Hiedler, and Martin Ohm. Among people deceased in 1864, George M. Dallas ranks 41Before him are Alexandre Calame, Pedro Santana, Luke Howard, Archduke Louis of Austria, Nassau William Senior, and Imre Madách. After him are Sakuma Shōzan, Charles Julien Brianchon, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Simon von Stampfer, and Romuald Traugutt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George M. Dallas ranks 4,079 out of 20,380Before him are Jim Carroll (1949), Kevin McCarthy (1914), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Prosky (1930), Peter Benchley (1940), and Leonard Adleman (1945). After him are John Nance Garner (1868), Philip Bosco (1930), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), Edward MacDowell (1860), Bruce Cabot (1904), and Eddie Guerrero (1967).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, George M. Dallas ranks 270Before him are Elihu Yale (1649), Judith Reisman (1935), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Patrick Henry (1736), Robert Smith (1757), and Michael Kahn (1935). After him are John Nance Garner (1868), Chuck Hagel (1946), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Gus Hall (1910), Lynne Cheney (1941), and Richard Mentor Johnson (1780).