Webster, Daniel
statesman, was born Jan. 18, 1792, in Salisbury, now He graduated from Franklin, Ν. Η.
Dartmouth college in 1801 with great honor. He then taught school; became a lawyer in 1805; and was elected to congress in 1812. For six years from 1816 he won distinction in his profession. He was re-elected to congress in 1822; was United States senator from 1827 to 1841; and was secretary of state under Harrison. He was United States senator again from 1845 to 1852; and then secretary of state under Fillmore. He was a master of English style, the best of his orations on especial occasions being those delivered at the second Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill monument in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson in 1826. He died Oct. 24, 1852, in Mansfield, Mass.