Quantcast
Channel: Women of Influence – Redneck Latte Ravings
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 79

I’ll Take Manhattan…er Philadelphia.

$
0
0

Sophia Nicklin Dallas was the Second Lady of the United States during the administration of James K. Polk.

Her husband, George Dallas was not only the Veep, he was a political rival of James Buchanan.

Sophia must have been a middle child, as there are no known likenesses of her…sorry Andy!

She was the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant and most notably the grand daughter of Benjamin Chew, the man who represented the Penn family in the Penn-Calvert dispute.

You may remember that dispute as it resulted in the proper border of Maryland and gave us the Mason-Dixon Line.

Sophia bore eight children while married to George; she elected to eschew Washington D.C., remaining in Philadelphia most of her husband’s term, visiting the capital occasionally but rarely.

The main stream media had nothing to say about it.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 79

Trending Articles