Mexico and
establishing a great empire in the South-west; arrested in Mississippi
Territory, January 14, 1807; indicted for treason at Richmond,
Virginia, May 22, and acquitted, September 1, 1807; died at Port
Richmond, Staten Island, September 14, 1836.

MARSHALL, JOHN. Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, September 24, 1755;
served in the Revolution; United States envoy to France, 1797-98; member
of Congress, 1799-1800; secretary of state, 1800-01; chief justice of
the United States Supreme Court, 1801-35; died at Philadelphia, July 6,
1835.

CLAY, HENRY. Born in Hanover County, near Richmond, Virginia, April 12,
1777; United States senator from Kentucky, 1806-07 and 1809-11; member
of Congress, 1811-21 and 1823-25; peace commissioner at Ghent, 1814;
candidate for President, 1824; secretary of state, 1825-29; senator,
1832-42 and 1849-52; Whig candidate for President, 1832 and 1844; chief
designer of the "Missouri Compromise" of 1820, of the compromise of
1850, and of the compromise tariff of 1832-33; died at Washington, June
29, 1852.

WEBSTER, DANIEL. Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire, January
18, 1782; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1801; admitted to the bar at
Boston, 1805; Federalist member of Congress from New Hampshire, 1813-17;
removed to Boston, 1816; member of Congress from Massachusetts, 1823-27;
Whig United States senator, 1827-41; received several electoral votes
for President, 1836, and unsuccessful candidate for Whig nomination
until death; secretary of state, 1841-43; senator, 1845-50; secretary of
state, 1850-52; died at Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852.

CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL. Born in Abbeville District, South Carolina,
March 18, 1782; graduated at Yale, 1804; admitted to the bar, 1807;
member of the South Carolina general assembly, 1808-09; member of
Congress, 1811-17; secretary of war in Monroe's cabinet, 1817-24;
Vice-President, 1825-32; United States senator, 1832-43; secretary of
state under Tyler, 1844-45; re-elected to the Senate of which he
remained a member until his death, at Washington, March 31, 1850.

BENTON, THOMAS HART. Born at Hillsborough, North Carolina, March 14,
1782; United States senator from Missouri, 1821-51; member of Congress,
1853-55; died at Washington, April 10, 1858.

CASS, LEWIS. Born at Exeter, New Hampshire, October 9, 1782; served in
the second war with England; governor of Michigan Territory, 1813-31;
secretary of war, 1831-36; minist