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Daniel Webster


Daniel Webster contributed a large potion of the Civil War. To begin,
he was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18, 1782. His parents
were farmers so many people didn't know what to expect of him. Even though
his parents were farmers, he still graduated from Dartmouth College in
1801. After he learned to be a lawyer, Daniel Webster opened a legal
practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807.

Webster quickly became an experienced and very good lawyer and a
Federalist party leader. In 1812, Webster was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives because of his opposition to the War of 1812, which had
crippled New England's shipping trade. After two more terms in the House,
Webster decided to leave the Congress and move to Boston in 1816. Over the
next 6 years, Webster won major constitutional cases in front of the
Supreme Court making him almost famous. Some of his most notable cases
were Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v.......

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