He negotiated and signed the Treaty of Ghent, the Commercial Treaty of 1815, the French Treaty of 1822, the Prussian Treaty, and the treaty which acquired Florida from Spain.

He was Senator, Representative, Foreign Minister, Secretary of State, and President.

He breasted the stormy waves of the House of Representatives at the age of eighty, and when he died in the Capitol, he left no purer or loftier fame behind him.
"Next came James Lloyd, the modest gentleman, the eloquent orator and the accomplished man of business.

Then came Gore and Ashmun and Mellen and Mills, each great among the great lawyers of a great generation.

Next in the procession comes the majestic presence of Daniel Webster, whose matchless logic and splendid eloquence gave to the Constitution of the country an authority in the reason and in the hearts of his countrymen equal to anything in judicial decision and equal to that of any victory of arms.