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 Henry Clay
served in both houses of Congress, and was the
second-longest-serving Speaker of the House in
U.S. history, being elected to that position a
total of six times. After supporting the War of
1812 he helped negotiate the treaty that ended
that war, and it was he who authored the second
Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. |
 De Witt Clinton
served in the U.S. Senate, as Mayor of New York
City, and as Governor of New York. An active
promoter of a canal between the Hudson River and
Lake Erie, he had the satisfaction of presiding
over the opening of both the Champlain and Erie
canals. |
 William Harris
Crawford served in the U.S. Senate,
as Secretary of War, and as Secretary of the
Treasury. He was a presidential candidate in 1816
and 1824, with the latter election having to be
decided by the U.S. House of Representatives. |
 James
Gadsden was the railroad president
who first proposed a southern transcontinental
railroad, and then negotiated a treaty with
Mexico whereby the United States purchased 45,535
square miles of land in what is now southern
Arizona and New Mexico. |
 Harrison Gray Otis
was chiefly responsible for summoning the
Hartford Convention in 1814, at which New
Englanders drafted a list of grievances to the
federal government related to the War of 1812. |
 Daniel Webster
served as a U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and
Secretary of State. He was a vocal opponent of
the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, a supporter
of the Bank of the United States, negotiated the
treaty which settled the Maine boundary dispute
with Canada, and supported the Compromise of
1850, which helped delay outbreak of the Civil
War by ten years. |
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