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9 unusual facts about Daniel Webster


1983 United States Senate bombing

A portrait of Daniel Webster, across from the concealed bomb, received the explosion’s full force.

Alfred Steinberg

His twelve books for the Lives to Remember Series included biographies of Herbert Hoover, James Madison, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, Douglas MacArthur, the Kennedy brothers, Admiral Richard Byrd and Daniel Webster.

Democratic-Republican Party

Many former members of the defunct Federalist Party, including Daniel Webster, joined the party.

East Marion, New York

The Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, poet Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and author James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote "Sea Lions", set in Orient.

Edward Young Higbee

In 1834 he accepted the rectorship of the recently organized Trinity Church in Washington, D.C., Daniel Webster being among his friends there.

Erie Railroad

The whole railroad from Piermont to Dunkirk was opened in May 1851 with an inspection trip for dignitaries including U.S. President Millard Fillmore, Secretary of State Daniel Webster, and others and the customary banquet, drinking, and speeches.

John Adams Jackson

Jackson's portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851); Adelaide Phillips (1853); Wendell Phillips (1854); "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid Stringing his Bow"; "Titania and Nick Bottom"; "The Culprit Fay" (many times repeated); "Dawn" (repeated); "Peace"; "Cupid on a Swan"; "The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times); "Reading Girl" (1869); "Nusidora" (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and "Il Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat.

Roger Minott Sherman

There is no doubt that Mr. Sherman's rank as a lawyer was among the very first in the country, --to be compared with that of Jeremiah Mason and Daniel Webster.

Runaway Officials of 1851

Congress passed a statute depriving any territorial officials of pay if they were absent from their assignments without due cause, and Daniel Webster advised Judge Perry E. Brocchus to either resign his position or return to the territory.


Andy Gardiner

When Republican State Senator Daniel Webster was unable to seek re-election in the 9th District, which included parts of Orange County, Osceola County, and Seminole County, due to term limits, Gardiner defeated Darius Davis, a teacher and the Democratic nominee, with 58% of the vote to win the seat.

Azalea Park, Florida

It is Florida's 8th Congressional District currently served by Republican Daniel Webster in the United States House of Representatives.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney

He donated $50,000 to Dartmouth College, and in 1886 he presented a bronze statue by Thomas Ball of his friend Daniel Webster to the people of New Hampshire; today it is located in front of the New Hampshire State House.

Big Twenty Township

The treaty, named for US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and United Kingdom Privy Counsellor Lord Ashburton, ended the Aroostook War and also set the US–Canada border further west.

Charles Lanman

Lanman's published writings include several collections of essays and books, including two biographies, the "Private Life of Daniel Webster" (New York and London, 1852) and "Life of William Woodbridge" (Washington, 1867).

Daniel Maynard Burgess

Burgess died within minutes of giving final instructions on the publication of his memoir, in which he reminisces about numerous acquaintances of note including Presidents Grant, Arthur and Cleveland; Generals Winfield Scott, Philip Sheridan, and Robert E. Lee; Daniel Webster, Mark Hanna, Roscoe Conkling, William Tweed, Charles Dana, F. Hopkinson Smith, and King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.

Donald Livingston

As Livingston affirms, the compact nature of the Union is opposed to the innovative nationalist theory of Joseph Story, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln which contends for an indivisible sovereignty, an inviolable aggregate people, and that the American Union created the States following the American War for Independence.

Fisk metallic burial case

At this time, Jefferson Davis, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster publicly endorsed the Fisk model, stating that in their opinion, the Fisk was "the best article known to us for transporting the dead to their final resting place".

Florida's 8th congressional district election, 2010

The Republicans chose former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Daniel Webster from a list of four other Republicans.

Francis Bellamy

To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches.

Job Pierson

A passionate supporter of Andrew Jackson, Pierson filled his letters with accounts of the president and other major political figures, including Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, and discussed the issues that dominated Jacksonian politics, including the Cherokee nation's legal status, the Second Bank of the United States, the Tariff of 1833, and the Nullification Crisis.

Joseph Tracy

From his college days, Rev. Tracy was closely associated with the New England group who were leaders in the development of political feeling in the north, most notably Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster, both fellow Dartmouth graduates.

Kate Sanborn

She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, the daughter of educator Edwin David Sanborn and his wife Mary Ann (Webster) Sanborn, daughter of Ezekiel Webster, and a niece of Daniel Webster.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.


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Marshfield, Massachusetts

Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster; gave his life for the Union in the Second Battle of Bull Run

Pet banks

They were chosen among the big U.S. bank when President Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter for the Second Bank of the United States, proposed by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay four years before the recharter was due.

Sealed Cargo

Shorthanded, he hires Danish sailor Konrad, and the Daniel Webster sails for the Grand Banks fishing grounds.