Background
Alexander James Dallas was born on June 21, 1759 in Kingston, Jamaica to Dr. Robert Charles Dallas and Sarah Elizabeth (Cormack) Hewitt. When he was five his family moved to Edinburgh and then to London.
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Alexander James Dallas was born on June 21, 1759 in Kingston, Jamaica to Dr. Robert Charles Dallas and Sarah Elizabeth (Cormack) Hewitt. When he was five his family moved to Edinburgh and then to London.
He was educated at private schools in England.
He settled in Philadelphia in 1783, where he became one of the most highly paid and respected members of the bar. His reports of the early decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court are still standard. As secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1790 to 1801, he was chief organizer of the Democratic-Republican Party in Pennsylvania. In two years, aided by the end of the war, he turned a substantial deficit into an operating surplus of $20, 000, 000. He also hastened the resumption of specie payments throughout the nation, helped create the second Bank of the United States, and fathered the quasi-protective tariff of 1816.
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He married Arabella Maria Smith of Pennsylvania, the daughter of Maj. George Smith of the British Army and Arabella Barlow.