Daniel Webster

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Daniel Webster (January 18th 1782 - October 24th 1852) was one of the statesmen American most important for the period which preceded the American Civil War. It was initially made know on the regional plan by defending the maritime interests of the New England. Its nationalist designs increasingly clear and its way remarkable to express them made of him one of the most famous speakers and one of the most influential Whigs chiefs in the Second System of the Parties.

As lawyer it was used as legal council in several lawsuits which created important constitutional precedents and which reinforced the authority of the federal government. As Secretary of State, it negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty which fixed at the east the final border between the the United States and the Canada. Known especially for its action with the Senate, Webster was a key character of “the Golden age” of the institution. Throughout this period its talent as senator was such as Webster formed part, with his/her colleagues Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, of what one knew and which one always knows like the “Large Triumvirate”.

Like Henry Clay, his desire to preserve the Union and to avoid a war led it to seek compromises to stop the separatism which made fear a war between North and the South. In spite of three attempts it never obtained the Presidency, the last failing partly because of its compromises. Like its tests to enter to the White House, its efforts to hold the nation apart from the civil war and to guarantee a stable peace proved finally vain. Despite everything, Webster deserves the regard to have tried it, and it was quoted officially by the Senate in 1957 like one of its five most exceptional members.

It is named Secretary of State the March 6th 1841 until the May 8th 1843. It takes again this function the July 23rd 1850, until its death, the October 24th 1852

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