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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Personal name headingWebster, Daniel, 1782-1852
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Variant(s)Webster, Mr. (Daniel), 1782-1852
Old Whig, 1782-1852
Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeWashington (D.C.)
Birth date1782-01-18
Death date1852-10-24
Place of birthSalisbury (N.H.)
Place of deathMarshfield (Mass.)
Field of activityPolitics, Practical Law
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Department of State
United States. Department of State
Profession or occupationLawyers Legislators Cabinet officers
Found inThe orations on Bunker Hill monument, c1894: t.p. (Daniel Webster)
Webster, C. (Le Roy). Mr. W. & I, 1949
His An appeal to the old Whigs of New-Hampshire, 1805: t.p. (an old Whig)
LC data base, Dec. 18, 2013 (hdg.: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present, viewed online August 6, 2014 (Webster, Daniel, a Representative from New Hampshire and a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Salisbury, N.H., January 18, 1782; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1805; elected as a Federalist from New Hampshire to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); elected from Massachusetts to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, to May 30, 1827; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); elected as Adams (later Anti-Jacksonian) on June 8, 1827, to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1827, credentials presented on December 3, 1827, and took oath of office on December 17, 1827; reelected as a Whig in 1833 and 1839 and served until his resignation, effective February 22, 1841; Secretary of State by President William Henry Harrison and again by President John Tyler and served from 1841 to 1843; again elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1845, to July 22, 1850, when he resigned; appointed Secretary of State by President Millard Fillmore and served from July 22, 1850, until his death in Marshfield, Massachusetts., October 24, 1852)
The Webster-Hayne Debate , 2018: ECIP summary (Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina took part in a heated debate)
Associated languageeng