1. Daniel Webster is the major character in a fictional short story, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet.
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1. Daniel Webster is the major character in a fictional short story, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet.
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4. Daniel Webster considered retiring from public office after the 1844 election, but he accepted election to the United States Senate in early 1845.
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7. Daniel Webster entertained hopes of winning the Whig nomination in the 1840 United States presidential election, but ultimately declined to challenge Clay or Harrison, both of whom commanded broader support within the party.
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9. Daniel Webster was elected as a delegate to the 1820 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.
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11. Daniel Webster represented numerous clients outside of Supreme Court cases, including prominent individuals such as George Crowninshield, Francis Cabot Lowell, and John Jacob Astor.
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12. Daniel Webster continued to practice law while serving in the House of Representatives, and he argued his first case before the Supreme Court of the United States in early 1814.
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17. Daniel Webster was chosen Fourth of July orator in Hanover, the college town, in 1800, and in his speech appears the substance of the political principles for the development of which he became famous.
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19. Daniel Webster was the son of Abigail and Ebenezer Webster, a farmer and local official who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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22. Daniel Webster joined with other Jackson opponents in forming the Whig Party, and unsuccessfully ran in the 1836 presidential election.
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24. Daniel Webster became a leading attorney before the Supreme Court of the United States, winning cases such as Dartmouth College v Woodward, McCulloch v Maryland, and Gibbons v Ogden.
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25. Daniel Webster left office after two terms and relocated to Boston, Massachusetts.
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26. Daniel Webster emerged as a prominent opponent of the War of 1812 and won election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served as a leader of the Federalist Party.
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