The Faces of Debate
As noted by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, In 1803 George Shattuck commissioned Francis Alexander, Chester Harding, and Thomas Sully to depict the four attorneys who helped to defend Dartmouth's original charter in the famous Dartmouth College Case, decided in the College's favor by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1819: Jeremiah Smith, Jeremiah Mason, Joseph Hopkinson, and Daniel Webster. Information retrieved from http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/collections/overview/americas/northamerica/uscanada/painting/portraiture/
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| Jeremiah Smith (1759-1842) |
| Jeremiah Mason (1768-1849), Class of 1823 |
| Joseph Hopkinson (1770-1842) |
| Daniel Webster (Black Dan) (1782-1852), Class of 1801 |
