. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. a light salary, whichhe increased by copying in the recorders office He continued tostudy law at Salisbury until in February, 1804, when he r
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. a light salary, whichhe increased by copying in the recorders office He continued tostudy law at Salisbury until in February, 1804, when he removed toBoston, where he entered another law-office and completed hisstudies. In 1805 he was admitted to the bar, and during the ensuingyear practiced as an attorney at Boscawen. In 180G he wasadmitted to practice in the superior court of New Hampshire, andefltablished himself in business at Portsmouth, then the capital ofthat State. In 1808 he was married to Miss Grace Fletcher, ofHopkinlon, N. II. Rising rapidly in his profession, he also identi-fied himself with the political party of federalists, and in 1812 waselected a member of Congress. In 1814 he was re-elected to Con-gress. Mr. Webster having lost by fire his house, library, and othervaluables, at Portsmouth, N. H., he was induced to remove to Boston,Mass., which he did in IHIO, at the close of his congressional seven years he devottd himself almost exclusively to the practice. Daniel Webster. Lawyer, Politician, Statesman, and Distinguished Orator. of the law in his new home, and built up a business and a reputationalmost unsurpassed by that of any other member of his 1822 he was elected to Congress from Boston. In 1826 he waschosen United States senator from Massachusetts. In 1830 occurredhis famous controversy in the senatewith Senator Hayne, of South Carolina,on the subject of Southern nullifica-tion—the right of a State to nullify,or make void, a law of Congress — adoctrine of so-calle
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