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Daniel Webster was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court…
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Born 18 January 1782 · Died 24 October 1852 · Q106231
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“s policies. He also campaigned for various Federalist candidates, including presidential candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and gubernatorial candidate Jeremiah Smith. Although Jefferson”
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A Senate Committee headed by then Senator John F
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At the age of 70, and is buried in Winslow Cemetery near his estate
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Died 1852-10-24.
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Campaign: 1852 election.
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“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”
“Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”
“One country, one constitution, one destiny.”
“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
“He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.”
“Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.”
“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
“A strong impression that something must be done, is the origin of many bad measures.”
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!”
“I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”
“The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.”
Webster wrote a book about Kossuth's life
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1850–1852).
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Was not only inconsistent, but that he erred deeply in policy and statesmanship" in his advocacy of a policy that "made war inevitable by encouraging slave-holders to believe that they could always obtain anything the
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President Fillmore appointed Webster as secretary of state, and Webster contributed to the passage of the Compromise of 1850, which settled several territorial issues and enacted a new fugitive slave law
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Career landmark: United States senator (1849–1850).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1847–1849).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1845–1847).
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And resumed his status as a leading congressional Whig
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1841–1843).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1839–1841).
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Webster was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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Career landmark: United States senator (1837–1839).
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Before the end of Jackson's term, he attempted to save the national bank through a compromise measure, but Democrats rejected his proposal
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Career landmark: United States senator (1835–1837).
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But he generally found the Taney Court to be less receptive to his arguments
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Career landmark: United States senator (1833–1835).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1831–1833).
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Webster purchased a 150-acre estate (now known as the Thomas–Webster Estate) in Marshfield, Massachusetts
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Was generally regarded as "the most eloquent speech ever delivered in Congress," and was a stock exercise for oratory students for 75 years
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Career landmark: United States senator (1829–1831).
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The Massachusetts legislature elected him to the United States Senate
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Career landmark: United States senator (1827–1829).
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And worked with Henry Clay to build the National Republican Party in support of Adams
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President Adams set off a partisan realignment by putting forward an ambitious domestic program, based on Clay's American System, that included a vast network of federally-funded infrastructure projects
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And became a key supporter of President John Quincy Adams
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Career landmark: United States representative (1823–1827).
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Is generally regarded as the oldest secondary school debate society in the nation
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Declined to seek another term in the House of Representatives, instead establishing a new residence in Boston
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Webster was invited to give a speech before the Washington Benevolent Society
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The United States declared war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812
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Webster married Grace Fletcher, a schoolteacher and the daughter of a New Hampshire clergyman
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“I believe in the utter inability of any human being to work out his own Salvation, without the constant aids of the spirit of all grace .... Although I have great respect for some other forms of worship, I believe the Congregational mode, on the whole, to be preferable to any other.”
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Handed over his practice to his brother, Ezekiel, and opened a new practice in the larger town of Portsmouth
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Obtained a position in Boston under the prominent attorney Christopher Gore
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And was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society
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And his speech contained the substance of the political principles which he would later become famous for developing
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Born 1782-01-18.
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I believe in the utter inability of any human being to work out his own Salvation, without the constant aids of the spirit of all grace .... Although I have great respect for some other forms of worship, I believe the Congregational mode, on the whole, to be preferable to any other.
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