The Man Who Would Not Be Vice President: The Daniel Webster Collection January 31, 2011 Description by Craig Bruce Smith, Archives and Special Collections Assistant and PhD candidate in history The ...

But 200 years later, Adams’ prediction has not come true. Webster, a statesman whose speeches inspired a young Abraham Lincoln, has become something of an obscure historical figure.

AFTER GRADUATING from Dartmouth College in August 1801, Daniel Webster returned to his family’s home, the Elms Farm, in Salisbury (later Franklin), New Hampshire.