DANIEL WEBSTER Chronology |
Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire | January 18, 1782 | Graduated at Dartmouth College | 1801 | Admitted to the bar | 1805 | Practised law in Boscawen, New Hampshire | 1805-7 | Removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire | 1807 | Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire | 1813-7 | Removed to Boston | 1816 | Dartmouth College case, United States Supreme Court | 1818 | Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention | 1820-1 | Oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts | 1820 | Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts | 1823-7 | Gibbons versus Ogden case | 1823 | Oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument | 1825 | Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson | 1826 | Senator from Massachusetts | 1827-41 | Reply to Hayne | 1830 | Argument in White murder case, Salem, Massachusetts | 1830 | Reply to Calhoun: The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States | 1833 | Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler | 1841-3 | Webster-Ashburton Treaty between the United States and England | 1842 | Oration on the completion of Bunker Hill Monument | 1843 | Senator from Massachusetts | 1845-50 | Seventh of March Speech for compromise between Northern and Southern States | 1850 | Secretary of State under President Fillmore | 1850-2 | Died at Marshfield, Massachusetts | October 24, 1852 |
DANIEL WEBSTER for YOUNG AMERICANS
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