Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster was born in 1782 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, the son of a farmer who had fought in the Revolutionary War. He graduated from Dartmouth College and became a lawyer, practicing in Portsmouth and later in Boston. He served in the House of Representatives for New Hampshire and later for Massachusetts, and he argued many important cases before the Supreme Court, including Dartmouth College v. Woodward and McCulloch v. Maryland. As a senator from Massachusetts, he became famous for his speeches. In his Second Reply to Hayne (1830), answering Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina, he defended the Union against the idea that states could nullify federal laws, ending with the words 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!' He twice served as secretary of state, negotiating the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain in 1842. In 1850 he supported the compromise measures meant to hold the Union together over slavery, a stand that divided his supporters. He died in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1852.

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Faith: Accounts differ: one biography calls him an orthodox Trinitarian Congregationalist, while Unitarians have also claimed him. Source: Wikipedia