List of United States Political Families (D) - The Dallases, Pells, and Baches

The Dallases, Pells, and Baches

• Alexander J. Dallas (1759–1817), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1814–1816. Father of George M. Dallas.
  • George M. Dallas (1792–1864), Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1828–1829; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1831–1833; Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1833–1835; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia 1835–1837; Vice President of the United States 1845–1849; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom 1856–1861. Son of Alexander J. Dallas and uncle of Alexander Dallas Bache.
    • Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867), Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey 1843–1865. Nephew of George M. Dallas.
    • Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), U.S. Senator from Mississippi 1835–1845, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1845–1849, Governor of Kansas Territory 1857. Nephew by marriage of George M. Dallas.
      • Benjamin Harris Brewster (1816–1888), Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1867–1868, Attorney General of the United States 1882–1885. Son-in-law of Robert J. Walker.
        • Claiborne Pell (1918–), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1961–1997. Great-great-grandnephew of George M. Dallas.
          • Daniel Brewster (1923–2007), Maryland House Delegate 1950–1958, U.S. Representative from Maryland 1959–1963, U.S. Senator from Maryland 1963–1969. Great-grandson of Benjamin Harris Brewster.

NOTE: Robert J. Walker was also grandson-in-law of Congressional Delegate Benjamin Franklin. Claiborne Pell is also son of U.S. Representative Herbert C. Pell, Jr., great-great grandson of U.S. Representative John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, and great-great grandnephew of William C.C. Claiborne and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne.