The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . rgument before the U. court at Wasliington made his fame as alawyer national, and gave him rank among the mostdistinguished jurists of the country. In 1820 he wasoffered
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . rgument before the U. court at Wasliington made his fame as alawyer national, and gave him rank among the mostdistinguished jurists of the country. In 1820 he wasoffered and declined the nomination of senator fromMassachusetts, but, two years later, yielding to press-ing solicitations, he consented to serve as the rep-resentative of the city of Boston in the eighteenthcongress. He was elected by a large majority, andin December of the same year he delivered atPlymouth, on the anniversary of the landing of thePilgrims, the first of that remarkable series of dis-courses, which gave him the first rank amongAmerican orators. He took his seat in congress inDecember, 1833, and early in the session made aspeech on the Greek revolution, which at once es-tablished his reputation as one of the first statesmenof the time. In the same year he was again electedas the Boston representative in congress, receivingall but 10 of the 5,000 votes cast at the polls. In 38 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. DAlflEL WEiiSTERS LAW-OFFICE. 1826 he was again a candidate, and again elected,with not a hundred votes against him. He sup-ported the administration of John Quincy Adams,firet in the house of representatives and then in thesenate, to which he was chosen in 1827, but he wasa member of the opposition during the succeedingadministrations of Jackson and Van Buren, whenmeasures of the first moment were discussed, andpolitical events occurred of the most novel and ex-traordinary character. In all these debates took a prominent part, and he is generallyregarded as ha
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