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Webster, Daniel 1782-1852
Statesman; born in Salisbury, N. H., Jan. 18, 1782; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1801, defraying a portion of his college expenses by teaching school.
After teaching in Maine he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1805.
He soon rose to eminence in his profession at Portsmouth, N. H., and was a member of Congress in 1813-17, where he soon took a foremost rank in debate.
In 1816 he settled in Boston, and, by his services in the Dartmouth College case, which was carried to the Supreme Court (1817), he was placed in the front rank in his profession.
In that court he ably argued many important cases, in which he exhibited superior skill and ability.
In 1820 he was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention.
He again entered Congress in 1823, when he made a famous speech on the Greek Revolution, and, as chairman of the judiciary committee, effected measures for a complete revision of the criminal law of the United States.
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