Daniel Webster (1782-1852) sat in the House of Representatives from 1813 and in the Senate from 1827, at first as a Federalist and later as a Whig.

Short Biography:

He was secretary of state 1841-1843 and 1850-1852, and negotiated the Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which fixed the Maine-Canada boundary. His celebrated "seventh of March" speech in the Senate in 1850 helped secure a compromise on the slavery issue.

Why is Daniel Webster famous?

Daniel Webster was an American politician and orator, born in New Hampshire.

Daniel Webster Lists

	United States Secretaries of State
	1782 births
	1852 deaths
	People from Merrimack County, New Hampshire
	American people of English descent
	American Unitarian Universalists
	Dartmouth College alumni
	Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
	Deaths from cirrhosis
	Great Triumvirate
	Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
	Members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire
	Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
	Massachusetts Federalists
	National Republicans
	Massachusetts Whigs
	United States Senators from Massachusetts
	Webster County, Georgia
	Whig Party (United States) presidential nominees
	United States presidential candidates, 1836
	United States presidential candidates, 1848
	United States presidential candidates, 1852
	Alcohol-related deaths in Massachusetts
	Philhellenes

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Category: Politicians  - ( Politicians Archive)

Date Added: 05 July '12

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