<p>I am very familiar with Marshfield, as it is one suburban Boston town away from me(!) but the fact remains, Daniel Webster made his national reputation after he became a “Boston lawyer.”</p>
<p>“Webster was elected (1812) to the U.S. House of Representatives (from Portsmouth, NH) because of his opposition to the War of 1812, which had crippled New England’s shipping trade. After two more terms in the House, Webster left Congress in 1816 and moved to Boston. Over the next six years, he won major constitutional cases before the Supreme Court (most notably, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD, GIBBONS V. OGDEN, and MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND), establishing himself as the nation’s leading lawyer and an outstanding orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts.”</p>
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