Daniel Webster [photograph], [ca. 1850-1852].

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Daniel Webster [photograph], [ca. 1850-1852].

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Half-plate daguerreotype in leather case of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), attorney and U.S. senator for Massachusetts. The photograph is attributed to John Adams Whipple and was taken ca. 1850-1852.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w ; visible oval image 11 1/2 x 9 cm. (half-plate), in case 15 1/2 x 12 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...