Biographical.
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First Period: Law and Politics in New Hampshire.
1782 Born at Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 18. Early Education.
1797 Enters Dartmouth College.
1805 Admitted to the Bar,
1805. Practises in Boscawen.
1807 Removes to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1813 Elected to Congress from Portsmouth.
1814-15 The Hartford Convention.
Second Period: Leader at the Bar and in the Forum.
1816 Removes to Boston, Massachusetts.
1817 "The Defence of the Kennistons."
1818 "The Dartmouth College Case."
1820 Massachusetts Convention.
Third Period: Expounder and Defender of the Constitution.
1827 Elected to the Senate from Massachusetts.
1830 "The Reply to Hayne."
1833 "The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States."
1833-34 Removal of the Deposits from the United States Bank. Rise of the Whig Party.
1835 Nominated to the Presidency by the Whigs of Massachusetts.
1837 Reception in New York.
1839 Visits England.
1840 Presidential Canvass.
1840-43 Secretary of State. Ashburton Treaty. Resigns the Department of State.
1844 Re-elected to the Senate from Massachusetts.
1845 "Eulogy on Justice Story." Annexation of Texas.
1846 Banquet in Philadelphia.
1850 Seventh of March Speech. Secretary of State under President Fillmore.
1852 Public Reception in Boston. Last Illness and Death.