Since Presidents rarely died in office, however, the better preparation for the Presidency was considered to be the office of Secretary of State, in which Webster served under Harrison, Tyler, and later, Taylor's successor, Fillmore.

During his 40 years in national politics, Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years ( representing New Hampshire ), in the Senate for 19 years ( representing Massachusetts ), and was appointed the Secretary of State under three presidents.

* Daniel Webster ( 1782 — 1852 ), American statesman, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, and U. S. Secretary of State

The county was organized in 1855 and named for U. S. Senator and U. S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster.

* Daniel Webster, US congressman, senator, and Secretary of State ; unsuccessful presidential candidate

* Daniel Webster, US congressman and senator from Massachusetts ; 14th and 19th US Secretary of State ; born in 1782 in what was then part of Salisbury, now within the city limits of Franklin

The trustees retained Dartmouth alumnus Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native who would later become a U. S. Senator for Massachusetts and Secretary of State under President Millard Fillmore.

Secretary of State Daniel Webster was a key supporter of the law as expressed in his famous " Seventh of March " speech.

The case was finally disposed of by U. S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster and Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, in the course of their negotiations leading to the Webster – Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

The Aroostook War involved no actual confrontation between military forces, and negotiations between diplomats from the UK and United States Secretary of State Daniel Webster quickly settled the dispute.

Secretary of State Webster secretly funded a propaganda campaign that convinced leaders in Maine of the wisdom of compromise.

The treaty was signed by United States Secretary of State Daniel Webster and British diplomat Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton.

He assisted Webster, now Secretary of State, and when Webster died in November 1852, President Fillmore appointed him to serve the remaining four months of Webster's term, to March 1853.

In 1842, U. S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster pointed out that the necessity for forcible reaction must be " instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.

Secretary of State Daniel Webster was a key supporter of the law as expressed in his famous " Seventh of March " speech.

In R. v. Secretary of State for Home Department, ex parte Tarrant ( 1983 ), Webster J. set out six factors to be considered when deciding whether to allow representation by counsel, namely:

He remained a wealthy gentleman and an ardent Whig, and he entertained, among others, Secretary of State Daniel Webster and Senator Henry Clay.

After Daniel Webster resigned to become Secretary of State in 1850, Winthrop resigned from the House and was appointed by fellow Whig Governor George Briggs to fill the remainder of Webster's Senate term.

Later that year, he acted as Secretary of State during the illness of Daniel Webster.

In July 1843, President Tyler appointed Upshur United States Secretary of State, to succeed Daniel Webster, who had resigned.

He resigned on September 11, 1841, along with the entire cabinet ( except Secretary of State Daniel Webster ), in protest of Tyler's veto of the third Bank of the United States.

In August 1982, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent a memo to Webster requesting an investigation of the LaRouche movement due to their " increasingly obnoxious " harassment of him, which was raised at a meeting that day of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board by senior member David Abshire.

On February 21, 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted that two US extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002.

* 3: 30 p. m. EDT: At a White House press briefing, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson states that a 63-year-old Lantana, Florida resident was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday with non-contagious pulmonary anthrax.

On 4 June, Javier Solana was appointed Secretary General of the Council and the strengthened High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy admitted the intervention in Kosovo-Solana was also seen by some as Europe's first Foreign Minister.

The plan then allegedly lost momentum, due in part, it was claimed, to warnings made by both the then Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, and the Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald who admitted the 12, 000-strong Irish army would be unable to deal with the ensuing civil war.

In U. S. vs Ju Toy ( 1905 ), the U. S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that the port inspectors and the Secretary of Commerce had final authority on who could be admitted.

Four years later, US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted to Congress that the US ships had in fact been cooperating in the South Vietnamese attacks against North Vietnam.

In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted that the Aug 4 attack never happened.

In June 1993, HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros admitted that, " HUD has in many cases exacerbated the declining quality of life in America.

His rise continued under John Major ; he was made a Cabinet Minister as Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( 1992 ), and admitted to the Privy Council the same year.

He has admitted to at one stage contemplating the assassination of Idi Amin while Foreign Secretary but settled instead to backing with money for arms purchases to President Nyerere of Tanzania in his armed attack on Uganda which led to the exile of Amin to Saudi Arabia.

In the latter year, having already been admitted to the cabinet, he for about two months at the first of the year succeeded Palmerston as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until Russell's defeat in 1852 ; and-when Lord Aberdeen formed his government at the end of the year, he became first Lord President of the Council, and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( 1854 ).

Rifkind admitted that he had not wished to remain a Shadow Cabinet minister unless in the post of Shadow Foreign Secretary, but this post had gone to William Hague.

Kennedy originally offered him a job as United States Secretary of Treasury and when McNamara admitted to having no experience he gave him Secretary of Defense.

The strong Scottish character of the party was even evident in relations with Conservative government ministers, when, for example, Lord Glendevon admitted he would be at odds with Scotland's Unionist Party for refusing the post of Secretary of State for Scotland because he preferred to remain at Westminster ( Lord Glendevon's Obituary, Scotsman, 22 / 01 / 1996 ).

At the time of his appointment as Secretary of State, Harley had given no outward sign of dissatisfaction with the Whigs, and it was mainly through Marlborough's influence that he was admitted to the ministry.

In Northern Ireland, such a person may not be admitted to bail except by order of the High Court or of the Secretary of State.

During the Summer 2012 Olympic Games being held in London, G4S's failure to provide enough Olympic security guards has taught ministers that private firms are unsuited to providing many public services, the Defence Secretary has admitted.

He eventually gave up and in one letter Kádár even admitted to his faults ; claiming that he was still " politically backward " and " ideologically untrained " when he headed the pre-war Communist Party as First Secretary.

After his appeal had been rejected by both the Court of Appeal and the Home Secretary, Rouse admitted that he had in fact committed the murder – although he never gave a reason – it was theorised that he had done so in an attempt to fake his own death.

His grandson, the fifth Baron, served as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1959 to 1964 in the Conservative governments of Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1964.

* Curtis H. Barnette, Trustee ; former Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel ; former Fulbright Scholar ; B. A., West Virginia University ; J. D., Yale University ; admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia and before the U. S. Supreme Court and various federal courts ; appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1988 ; appointed by President George Bush to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations in 1989 ; appointed by Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole as a member of the Coal Commission in 1990 ; President, Association of General Council ; Chairman, American Society of Corporate Secretaries ; Vice Chairman, Yale Law School Fund ; and Member, New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee ; Chairman of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors and the WVU Board of Governors ; Vice Chairman, Foundation for a Drug Free Pennsylvania ; Vice Chairman, Pennsylvania Business Roundtable ; Director, American Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, International Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, WLVT-TV, Channel 39

He had recommended the conclusion of arrangements with Sher Ali which, as has since been admitted, would have prevented the Second Afghan War ; but his policy was overruled by the Duke of Argyll, then Secretary of State for India.

The Secretary of the College of Cardinals, the Master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations, two Masters of Ceremonies, two officers of the Papal Sacristy and an ecclesiastic assisting the Dean of the College of Cardinals are also admitted to the conclave.