George Dallas, former Vice President of the United States (and President of the Senate)

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Dallas was Vice President of the United States (and President of the Senate) and was a Democratic. He served from 1845 to 1849.

He was previously a senator from Pennsylvania as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833.

Photo of Vice President George Dallas [D, 1845-1849]

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The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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Vice President George Dallas

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