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114 was appointed to fill a vacancy in the U. S. senate. His appointment was confirmed by tlie legislature in 1845, and he was also elected for the whole term. In the senate debates on the Oregon question, the tariff, annexation of Texas, and the Mexican war, he took the position of a free-soil whig. He was the friend and adviser of President Taylor, and opposed the fugitive-slave bill, but advocated the admission of California as a free state, and the abo- lition of slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1856 he was nominated by the newly formed repub- lican party for vice-president. In March, 1857, he was made attorney-general for the state of New Jersey, and held that office until 1861, when Presi- dent Lincoln appointed him minister to France, where he remained until his death. — His son, Will- iam Lewis, who was graduated at Princeton in 1858, and practised law in Trenton, was appointed by President Arthur minister to the Netlierlands.

DAZA, Hilarion (dah'-thah), Bolivian states- man, b. at Sucre, in 1840; murdered in Bolivia, 28 Feb., 1894. The name of his father, a Spaniard, was Grosoli, but the son adopted his maternal family name, Daza. When eighteen years of age he volunteered in the array of the liberals. Subse- quent successful revolutions brought him into no- tice, and won him the patronage and confidence^ of Melgarejo. To explore the courses of the rivers Pilcomayo and Bermejo, flowing into the Para- guay, numerous fruitless expeditions have been or- ganized ; and in one of these, during the brief lull in political strife that marked the dictatorship of Melgarejo, the year 1867 found young Daza sec- ond in command, with the rank of lieutenant-colo- nel. He was conspicuous in January, 1871, in league with his colonel, Juan Granier, against his former friend and patron. On the deposition of Melgarejo, Daza, at the head of his regiment of cuirassiers, held in check the turbulent factions at La Paz, for which services he was rewarded by President Morales with further promotion and the portfolio of war. As minister and general he succeeded in maintaining order after the death of Morales in 1872, and insured the peaceful accession of the constitutional successor. In the same year he supported the candidature of Ballivian, and on the death of the latter became himself a candidate for the presidency against Salinas (the civil candi- date), Oblitas, and Vasquez (the representative of the Corral party). When the elections were over a dispute ensued as to the majority, and Daza, it is contended, seized the office as his right, and was in- augurated on 4 May, 1876. His government was popular, and troubled with as few revolutions as that of any of his predecessors. At the beginning of the war with Chili, 1 March, 1879, he set out at the head of his troops, leaving the government in charge of Senor Guerra, minister of foreign af- fairs. Of Daza's part in this war Markham says : "The Bolivian army under his command, 4,000 strong, arrived at Tacna, in Peru, on 30 April, but in the short duration of his command Daza proved iiimself as incapable as cowardly. Two battalions were detached under Col. Villamil's command to garrison Pisagua on 25 May, and when, on 2 Nov., the Chilian army invaded the province of Tarapaca, Daza's army, according to arrangements made with the commander-in-chief of the allied forces, was to advance from Arica to take the invaders in the rear while they were engaged with the army of Tarapaca. Daza began his march from Tacna with 3,000 men, loitered three days at Arica, started again on 11 Nov., and on the 12th marched over fifteen miles of sandy desert to the little river Vi- tor. He advanced one more march to the defile of the river Camarones, but there stopped again, and on 16 Nov. abandoned tiie work he had undertaken, leaving the army of Tarapaca to its fate, and re- turned to Tacna, his own soldiers threatening to shoot him as a coward." On 27 Dec, having been called to Arica for a consultation by Admiral Mon- tero, Daza received the news that during his ab- sence his army had rebelled and deposed him, and on his return voyage to La Paz he heard at Are- quipa, in January, 1880, of a revolution at the capital, which proclaimed Gen. Narciso Campero as his successor. He then went to Paris.

DEALY, Patrick Francis, clergyman, b. in New York, of Irish parentage, in 1886. He was educated in the grammar-schools of New York city, and afterward entered St. John's college, Fordham. After teaching in Fordham and in the Jesuit col- lege of Montreal, he was sent to Europe to finish liis tlieological studies. He continued his ecclesi- astical course in France, and afterward in Rome, but, owing to the danger of disturbances there in 1859, he was sent by his superiors to the University of Innspruck. He returned to the United States in 1863, and was apjjointed professor of rhetoric in St. John's college, Fordham. He was afterward rector of the church of St. Francis Xavier, New York. During his pastorate the new church was completed, principally through his instrumentality. He was selected by Cardinal MeCloskey to take charge of the first pilgrimage that ever left America for Rome, and was treated with great distinction by the pope and cardinals. He founded the Xavier Union in 1871, and took a prominent part in the formation of the Catholic union, a body consisting of the leading Catholics of the state, which watches over Catholic interests. He was appointed their spiritual director by Cardinal MeCloskey, and was the medium of communication between them and the cardinal. On his appointment as rector of Fordham college in 1880, the representative Catho- lics of New York petitioned the general of the order to allow him to remain in the city, as the numerous societies with which he was connected would suffer by his absence. This was refused, but he was al- lowed to continue his connection with the Xavier and Catholic unions. Father Dealy did much for the development of St. John's college, Fordham. He founded four scholarships of the yearly value of $400, open to competitors without distinction of creed, and established a special scientific course. He is a member of Convocation, and has lectured before the historical societies of New York and Brooklyn, principally on the early history of New York.

DEAN, Amos, lawyer, b. in Barnard, Vt., 16 Feb., 1803 ; d. 26 Jan., 1868'. He was graduated at Union in 1822, studied law, and on his admission to the bar formed a partnership of long continuance with Azor Tabor, and soon attained a high reputation for his legal attainments. In 1833 he projected the Young men's association of Albany, of which he was a lifelong friend and supporter, and in 1834 delivered before it a course of lectures, subsequently published. He prepared numerous treatises on law subjects, which have been recognized as standard works. In 1851, on the organization of the law-school, he was appointed a professor, and he had also filled the chair of medical jurisprudence in the Albany medical school from its organization in 1839. He is the author of "Lectures on Phrenology" (1835); "Manual of Law" (1838); "Philosophy of Human Life" (Boston, 1839); "Medical Jurisprudence" (1854); and "Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law" (New York, 1861). He left unfinished an elaborate work on the "History of Civilization" (7 vols., Albany, 1869-'70).