DANIEL WEBSTER Chronology
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Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New HampshireJanuary 18, 1782
Graduated at Dartmouth College1801
Admitted to the bar1805
Practised law in Boscawen, New Hampshire1805-7
Removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire1807
Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire1813-7
Removed to Boston1816
Dartmouth College case, United States Supreme Court1818
Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention1820-1
Oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts1820
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts1823-7
Gibbons versus Ogden case1823
Oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument1825
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson1826
Senator from Massachusetts1827-41
Reply to Hayne1830
Argument in White murder case, Salem, Massachusetts1830
Reply to Calhoun: The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States1833
Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler1841-3
Webster-Ashburton Treaty between the United States and England1842
Oration on the completion of Bunker Hill Monument1843
Senator from Massachusetts1845-50
Seventh of March Speech for compromise between Northern and Southern States1850
Secretary of State under President Fillmore1850-2
Died at Marshfield, MassachusettsOctober 24, 1852
