Description: Daniel Webster By Henry Cabot Lodge Published By Houghton, Mifflin And Company Riverside Press, Cambridge Boston and New York 1899 The title-page is undated. The copyright date by the publisher is 1899. Hardcover. Green cloth binding. Top page edge gilt. 5.25" x 7.5" (11) + 378 pages. Indexed. A volume in the " American Statesmen " series. 120+ years old. Biography of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court in his career. During his life, Webster had been a member of the Federalist Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party. He was among the three members of the Great Triumvirate along with Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Author Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was a powerful Republican Senator , and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt . ------ Nice Condition. Almost no wear to the binding; nice condition. ( see the photos ) The hinges are very tight. No writing. Former owner's small private library tag on the front pastedown endpaper : ( small ; " Chas. E. Williams , M. D., Houlton , Maine " ). No other markings. Two pages have a smudge in the lower margin. The pages are otherwise in very good condition. ------ The Illustrations : 1. Daniel Webster - from a daguerreotype photograph taken in 1850 ( with facsimile signature ) 2. Home of Daniel Webster in Marshfield Massachusetts ( title-page vignette , from a drawing after a photograph ) 3. Jeremiah Mason - from a painting by Stuart ( with facsimile signature ) 4. Webster replying to Hayne in the Senate of the United States on January 26, 1830 ( from a painting by George Peter Alexander Haley ) 5. Robert Y. Hayne - from a daguerreotype photograph ( with facsimile signature ) 6. Lord Ashburton - from a painting by Healy ( with facsimile signature ) ----- Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Boston
New Hampshire Massachusetts Washington DC: Alexander Hamilton President Andrew Jackson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1899
Henry Cabot Lodge Senator Senate Law: Sectretary State Federalist Party Republican Party Whig
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Lodge
Region: North America
Topic: Political
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
