Webster was a prolific Supreme Court advocate, often arguing more than 10 cases a year. Chief Justice John Roberts tells DAM, “Daniel Webster represented for Americans what a lawyer was, both good and bad.” “For over a century and maybe more,” current U.S. Told that the field was too crowded, he allegedly replied: “There’s always room at the top.” That’s certainly where he wound up. But the orator and statesman known as “the godlike Daniel” left a far greater imprint.Ī swarthy complexion and jet-black hair earned this Salisbury, New Hampshire, native the nickname “Black Dan.” His titanic ego was evident early-he skipped his Dartmouth graduation because he wasn’t selected as the valedictory speaker. Supreme Court, many of them landmark rulings that shaped our interpretation of the Constitution. Woodward was one of more than 200 cases Webster argued before the U.S. Webster fixed his intense gaze on Marshall and uttered the words every Dartmouth graduate knows: “It is, as I have said, sir, a small college, but there are those who love it.” Trustees of Dartmouth v. Chief Justice John Marshall had tears in his eyes that March day in 1818 as Daniel Webster reached the climax of his impassioned four-hour argument.
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