When1: 1816
When2: 1850
Who: Daniel Webster [Webster, Daniel]
What: lawyer/senator
Where: USA
works\ Dartmouth College v. Woodward [1819]; Gibbons v. Ogden [1821]; McCulloch v. Maryland [1824]; Webster-Ashburton Treaty [1842]
Detail: He lived 1782 to 1852, believed in Alexander Hamilton's ideas, was Whig, and argued Dartmouth College case about contracts and McCulloch vs. Maryland case about states' rights. He backed Compromise of 1850 to preserve union.
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