Daniel Webster

xi, 343 pp. Navy boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt, deckled edges. Frontispiece and plates, including portraits of various presidents and statesmen. Daniel Webster, (born January 18, 1782, Salisbury, New Hampshire, U.S. - died October 24, 1852, Marshfield, Massachusetts), American orator and politician who practiced prominently as a lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court and served as a U.S. congressman (1813 - 17, 1823 - 27), a U.S. senator (1827 - 41, 1845 - 50), and U.S. secretary of state (1841 - 43, 1850 - 52). He is best known as an enthusiastic nationalist and as an advocate of business interests during the period of the Jacksonian agrarianism. - Britannica