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Dallas (GEORGE MIFFLIN an American)

GEORGE MIFFLIN, an American diplomatist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1792. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1810. In 1813 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after entered the diplomatic service.

In 1831 he was elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He was United States minister to Russia from 1837 to 1839, and in 1844 was elected Vice-President of the United States. In 1846 his casting-vote as President of the Senate repealed the protective tariff of DALLES 1842, though he had previously been considered a Protectionist. His course on this question aroused much indignation in Pennsylvania. He was United States minister to Great Britain from 1856 to 1861. He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1864.

DALLES (dalz), the name given to various rapids and cataracts in North America. The Great Dalles of the Columbia are about 200 miles from the mouth of that river, where it is compressed by lofty basaltic rocks into a roaring torrent about 58 yards in width ; the Dalles of the St. Louis are a series of cataracts near Duluth, Minn.