Daniel Webster

ID: 2801

This file appears in: County Named, 1860

A determined Daniel Webster appears in this portrait as he must have often looked to political opponents. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: County Named, 1860

County Named, 1860

By Tim Talbott

Historical Marker #783 in Dixon—Webster County's county seat—remembers the nineteenth century political giant, Daniel Webster, the county's namesake. Daniel Webster made up one-third of the so-called "Great Triumvirate," which…