Research topic: Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster 1782-1852, American statesman, lawyer, and orator, b. Salisbury (now in Franklin), N.H. Early Career He graduated (1801) from Dartmouth College, studied law, and, after an interval as a schoolmaster, was admitted (1805) to the bar. Webster practiced law at Boscawen and Portsmouth, N.H., and rapidly gravitated toward politics. As a Federalist and a defender of the New England shipping interests, he sat (1813-17) in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he opposed James Madison 's administration, although he did not join forces with members of the Hartford Convention... Read more