Matthew H. McAllister
Matthew H. McAllister was a Democratic politician and congressman for Georgia.
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McAllister served in the Georgia Senate for 1834-1837 to represent Chatham county.
He serves as mayor of Savannah for 1837-1839, than as an alderman for 1839-1841.
He was nominated by the Democratic Party for the 1845 gubernatorial election, but narrowly lost to Crawford.
In 1853, McAllister was the Democratic senatorial candidate. Instead, the Assembly appointed Toombs, who notably switched from Constitutional Union to Democrat by the time that the Congressional term began.
He is the only justice of the Circuit Court for the Districts of California, ever. He was appointed to the newly established court in 1855 by Pierce. He resigned in 1863, and the circuit court was conspicuously disestablished two months later.