Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. Watson Webb” in article pos=73 of The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
... Marsh served one term in the House of Representatives, and was appointed Resident Minister to Turkey by President Taylor in 1849.
He is more eminent as a scholar and author than as a politician.
Gen. Watson Webb , editor of the New York Courier, has been nominated Minister to the Turkish Porte.
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