Senator, Massachusetts · 1827–1850
Daniel Webster
The 19th-century Whig, not the Florida representative now in the House. Liberty and Union, a protective tariff, and the Compromise of 1850.
Daniel Webster is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Massachusetts, 1827–1850. The placement note is: The 19th-century Whig, not the Florida representative now in the House. Liberty and Union, a protective tariff, and the Compromise of 1850.
The dot is economics +12 and authority +22. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Liberty and Union, now and forever, and a tariff for Northern industry. Done: He spoke for the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act included, and lost the abolitionists. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Ted Stevens (+16 / +18) and Sam Ervin (+6 / +16). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.