Faneuil Hall |
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68 |
John Adams |
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74 |
James Otis |
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77 |
Independence Hall, Philadelphia |
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80 |
Thomas Jefferson |
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82 |
The Declaration of Independence |
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84 |
John Hancock |
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91 |
Samuel Adams |
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97 |
Patrick Henry |
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101 |
Benjamin Franklin |
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102 |
The Reply to Hayne |
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118 |
Thomas H. Benton |
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120 |
John Quincy Adams |
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123 |
Robert Y. Hayne |
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135 |
The Battle of Lexington |
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144 |
George Washington |
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175 |
The Resignation of Washington |
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178 |
Henry Clay |
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195 |
The Capitol at Washington |
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200 |
Washington Monument |
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208 |
Millard Fillmore |
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211 |
DANIEL WEBSTER
Chronology
Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire |
January 18, 1782 |
Graduated at Dartmouth College |
1801 |
Admitted to the bar |
1805 |
Practised law in Boscawen, New Hampshire |
1805-7 |
Removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
1807 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire |
1813-7 |
Removed to Boston |
1816 |
Dartmouth College case, United States Supreme Court |
1818 |
Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention |
1820-1 |
Oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts |
1820 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts |
1823-7 |
Gibbons versus Ogden case |
1823 |
Oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument |
1825 |
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson |
1826 |
Senator from Massachusetts |
1827-41 |
Reply to Hayne |
1830 |
Argument in White murder case, Salem, Massachusetts |
1830 |
Reply to Calhoun: The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States |
1833 |
Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler |
1841-3 |
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