Webster, Daniel

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1. A Whig political leader and diplomat of the nineteenth century. Webster is remembered for his speaking ability and for his service as a senator from Massachusetts through most of the 1830s and 1840s. Webster defended national unity in the Senate against advocates of states' rights such as John C. Calhoun. In one debate, he spoke the famous words, “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” He opposed the Mexican War and the admission of Texas as a slave state but supported the Compromise of 1850, including the Fugitive Slave Act. A member of the Whig party, he ran for president three times but was never nominated.

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Example Sentences

Weaver, James B. Webster, Daniel, birth; opposes nullification doctrine; secretary of state; speech on Compromise Bill; death of.

From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach

Webster, Daniel, on the Constitution, 140.Whig party, convention of 1848, 132; campaign of 1852, 207;decline, 260-262;nominates Fillmore, 280.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen

Webster, Daniel: his career and services, 41-2; his great speech, 45-6, 173; value of his support to Whigs, 68; Lincoln meets him, 91; his support of compromise of 1850 and his death, 99-100.

From Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

Webster, Daniel, his interview with Jefferson concerning Henry, 10, 23.

From Patrick Henry by Tyler, Moses Coit

Webster, Daniel, basis of style, 53, 54; and presidential nomination in 1852, 86.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford