biography
| name: |
Dallas, Alexander James
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| male
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| lived:
| (1759–1817)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and public official, born on the island of Jamaica. The son of a physician, he studied at Edinburgh University, worked as a merchant clerk, then returned to the West Indies and began practising law there. In 1783 he emigrated to the USA, settling in Philadelphia. A journalist as well as a lawyer of repute, he became US attorney for the E district of Pennsylvania (1801), serving for 13 years. In 1814–16 he was secretary of the treasury in the Madison administration. |
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