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Daniel Webster ("Black Dan" - Marshfield, MA, attorney and statesman)

b. 1782-01-18 d. 1852-10-24

Marshfield, Massachusetts, attorney and statesman. New Hampshire native. Son of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail Eastman Webster. Married to Grace Fletcher Webster in New Hampshire on May 29, 1808. Married to Caroline Roy Webster in New York, New York, on December 14, 1829. Graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. Federalist member of the House of Representatives for the state of New Hampshire from 1813 to 1817. Member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Massachusetts from 1823 to 1827. Elected Senator for the state of Massachusetts from 1827 to 1841. Secretary of state for the United States of America from 1841 to 1843. Whig senator from Massachusetts from 1845 to 1850. Secretary of state for the United States of America from 1850 to 1852. Employed John Mason as a servant in Marshfield in 1850.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Marshfield, p. 152A.

New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659-1900, "Vadney-Wadleigh," p. 343 (accessed on ancestry.com).

New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947 for Daniel Webster,, "Marriage, Pre-1901, Vinton-Weed," p. 2932 of 5106 of microfilm.

New York, Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880 (Barber Collection), "New York Evening Post, 1829, December," p. 2 of 3 of microfilm (accessed on ancestry.com).

"Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000238.

Citation

Webster, Daniel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207348 (November 12, 2026).

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