Sec. of State Daniel "The Orator" Webster

Birth	01/18/1782
Education	1796
Education
Occup	1813-1817
Org.	1814		American Antiquarian Society, Member
Org.	1823-1827		US House Committee on the Judiciary, Chairperson
Occup	1823-1827
Occup	1827-1841
Org.	1833-1836		US Senate Committee on Finance, Chairperson
Election	1836		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1841-1843		USA Secretary of State
Occup	1845-1850
Occup	1850-1852		USA Secretary of State
Death	10/24/1852		Cause: cirrhosis horse accident
Grave

Daniel Webster was his era's foremost advocate of American nationalism. A farmer's son, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801. After a legal apprenticeship, Webster opened a legal practice in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1807.

Rising quickly as a lawyer and Federalist party leader, Webster was elected (1812) to the U.S. House of Representatives because of his opposition to the War of 1812, which had crippled New England's shipping trade. After two more terms in the House, Webster left Congress in 1816 and moved to Boston. Over the next 6 years, he won major constitutional cases before the Supreme Court (most notably, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD, GIBBONS V. OGDEN, and MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND), establishing himself as the nation's leading lawyer... Read More