Daniel Webster, photographed by Mathew Brady
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DANIEL WEBSTER
January 18, 1782 • October 24, 1852
- Birthplace: Salisbury, New Hampshire
- Parents: Ebenezer Webster and Abigail Eastman
- Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, Dartmouth College
- 1801: Graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
- 1805: Admitted to the Boston bar
- 1807: Moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817: Elected as a Federalist from New Hampshire to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congress
- 1816-1819: Achieved national fame as counsel representing Dartmouth College before the United States Supreme Court in the Dartmouth Case of 1816-1819
- 1820-1821: Delegate to the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention
- June 8, 1827: Elected to the United States Senate, reelected as a Whig in 1833 and again in 1939
- 1841-1843: Appointed Secretary of State by President William Henry Harrison and again by President John Tyler
- 1842: Directly involved in dispute with Great Britain over Maine-Canada border with successful negotiations in what is known as the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- March 4, 1845-July 22, 1850: Elected as a Whig to the United States Senate
- March 7, 1850: Supported the Compromise of 1850 denouncing Southern threats of secession, urging Northern support for a stronger law for recovery of fugitive slaves
- July 22, 1850: Appointed Secretary of State by President Millard Fillmore and served in this position until his death
- First Marriage: May 29, 1808 to Grace Fletcher (Clergyman's daughter), in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- Second Marriage: December 12, 1829 to Caroline LeRoy
- Children: One son, Charles (born to first marriage)
- Age at Death: 70 years
- Place of Death: Marshfield, Massachusette
- Burial Place: Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Massachusette
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