DANIEL WEBSTER Chronology

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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
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