AHC Challenge: make Daniel Webster president, preferably in his own right

Just what the subject line says. Webster wanted very much to be the chief executive but never got closer than his post of Secretary of State--and at the time, that cabinet office stood fourth after the vice president, president pro tem of the Senate, and Speaker of the House.

So: how would Webster accomplish his long-standing ambition? (It's cheating to have him accept the nomination for vice president in 1840 and then follow Harrison: let's have him elected outright in the first place.)
 
During his brief administration Harrison showed some signs of favoring Webster over Clay on patronage. https://books.google.com/books?id=TPXdYy95iusC&pg=PT344 It is possible that had he lived, Harrison would have worked for Webster as his successor in 1844 (Harrison had pledged to serve only one term). Even if he did so, though, I am unsure he could get the Whig party to go along, and even if they did I am doubtful that Webster, with his image as an elitist and his background as a Federalist, could win the election. But maybe he just has a chance if the Democrats nominate the unpopular Van Buren...
 
Just what the subject line says. Webster wanted very much to be the chief executive but never got closer than his post of Secretary of State--and at the time, that cabinet office stood fourth after the vice president, president pro tem of the Senate, and Speaker of the House.

Actually it didn't stand anywhere during Webster's lifetime. Until 1886, the Line of Succession ended with the Speaker.
 
Actually it didn't stand anywhere during Webster's lifetime. Until 1886, the Line of Succession ended with the Speaker.

Indeed, the Cabinet was deliberately cut out of the original Presidential Succession Act because the Federalists didn't want Secretary of State Jefferson becoming President.
 
It's cheating to have him accept the nomination for vice president in 1840 and then follow Harrison.

I was going to suggest the second time he was nominated to be Vice President, when after loosing the Whig Primaries during the United States presidential election, 1848, to military hero Zachary Taylor, whom in turn asked Webster to be his VP

President Taylor would be dead 16 months after the inauguration. :D Meaning We could have President Webster in 1850. But then you, have to go and rain on my parade by saying:
let's have him elected outright in the first place.
 
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