FTP, name this Whig orator, best known for a two-hour speech that was completely overshadowed by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
In 1817 he became the first American to receive a Ph.D. at G?ttingen before becoming a professor of Greek literature at Harvard and editing The North American Review.  A Congressman from 1825 to 1835, he led the opposition to Andrew Jackson's dispossession of the Cherokee and went on to serve as the governor of Massachusetts, the president of Harvard, and the vice presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union party.  FTP, name this Whig orator, best known for a two-hour speech that was completely overshadowed by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
In 1817 he became the first American to receive a Ph.D. at G?ttingen before becoming a professor of Greek literature at Harvard and editing The North American Review.  
Edward Everett