The person who commissioned the memorial was Stilson Hutchins, founder of The Washington Post, who greatly admired Webster.

The pedestal features two bas-reliefs, one depicting the Webster–Hayne debate and the other Webster speaking at the Bunker Hill Monument dedication ceremony.

Some of the landmark cases Webster won in the Supreme Court include Dartmouth College v. Woodward, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Gibbons v. Ogden.

[3][4] The person responsible for the idea of a memorial was Stilson Hutchins, founder of The Washington Post, who lived near Scott Circle and was a native of New Hampshire like Webster.

Hutchins greatly admired Webster and told members of Congress he would pay for a statue to honor the man.

The event began with a prayer from William Henry Milburn, a blind clergyman who was Chaplain of the United States Senate at the time.

Henry N. Couden, who was serving as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, delivered a benediction before the memorial was unveiled by Webster's great-grandon, Jerome Bonaparte, along with Hutchins' wife and a young lady, Katherine Deering.

[7][8] The Daniel Webster statue is located on Reservation 62, a small parcel of land on the west side of Scott Circle.

[5][9] It depicts Webster as an orator and, according to historian James Moore Goode, "The shoulders are thrown back in a defiant manner as if in answer to a challenge.

"[2] Historian Eve L. Barsoum said his face "portrays an intensity and sternness, indicative of his litigious and oratory skills.

The second bas-relief depicts Webster delivering a dedication speech from a flag-draped balcony at the Bunker Hill Monument in 1843.