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Article: Daniel Webster
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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
.
In 1816 he transferred his residence to Boston. Before he was returned (1822) to the House, ...