Daniel Webster correspondence, 1824-1852

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...

Webster, Caroline Le Roy

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New England Mutual Life Insurance Company

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Woodbridge, William, 1780-1861

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Woodbridge was born in Conn. on Aug. 20, 1780. He served in several high Ohio political positions before moving to Michigan. Woodbridge served as Secretary and Acting Governor of the Territory of Michigan, 1812-1828; Collector of Customs at Detroit, 1814- ; Michigan Territory's first delegate in Congress, 1819-1820; Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, 1828-1832; Delegate from the 1st District (Detroit) to the Constitutional Convention of 1835; Senator from the 1st District, 1838-1839; Gove...

Richard, Gabriel, 1767-1832

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French priest and missionary in Detroit, Michigan; also co-founder of the Catholepistemiad (or University of Michigan). From the description of Gabriel Richard papers, 1792-1832. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420837 Richard was born at Saintes, France on Oct. 15, 1767. He was well educated and became a priest of the Sulpitians, a society devoted to the care of young men for the sanctuary in 1791. In 1792 he came to Baltimore (Md.), moving to Detroit (Mich.)...

Howard, Jacob Merritt, 1805-1871

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Rep. and Senator from Michigan. From the description of Autograph letter signed : U.S. Senate Chamber, Washington, to President Lincoln, 1865 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269539368 U.S. Representative and Senator, of Detroit, Mich. From the description of Reconstruction report of the committee, 1866. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19643081 From the description of Reconstruction report of the committee, 1866. (Duke University Lib...

Wing, Austin Eli, 1792-1849

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Michigan legislator and congressman. Born in Conway, Hampshire County, Mass., Feb. 3, 1792; moved to Marietta, Ohio; attended common schools, academy at Chillicothe, and Athens College; graduated from Williams College, 1814; moved to Detroit and later to Monroe; sheriff of Michigan Territory; elected to Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-second Congresses; affiliated with the Whigs; member state House of Representatives; 1842; member Board of Regents, University of Michig...

Wilkins, Ross

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Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Felch, Alpheus, 1804-1896

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Resident of Houlton, Maine, later Monroe and Ann Arbor, Michigan; Michigan state supreme court justice, 1842-1845, Democratic governor, 1846-1847, and United States senator, 1847-1853. From the description of Alpheus Felch papers, 1817-1896. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419272 Lawyer, Governor of Michigan, and U. S. Senator from Michigan. Born in Limerick, Me., Sept. 28, 1804; graduated from Bowdoin,1827; studied law, was admitted ...