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Sec. of State Daniel "The Orator" Webster
| Birth | 01/18/1782 | |||
| Educ. | 1796 | |||
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| Occup | 1813-1817 |  | ||
| Org. | 1814 |  | ||
| Occup | 1823-1827 | | ||
| Org. | 1823-1827 | | ||
| Occup | 1827-1841 | | ||
| Org. | 1833-1836 | | ||
| 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 | ||
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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
