Share This Article 1. About this many Irish soldiers deserted the Irish Army to fight for the Allies in World War Two. 150 300 1,000 5,000 2. This senator was known as The Great Compromiser from the 1820s through the 1850s. Stephen Douglas Thomas Hart Benton Henry Clay Daniel Webster 3. This Southern senator earned the nickname “Hangman” for threatening to lynch a fellow senator. John C. Calhoun Thomas Hart Benton Henry Stuart Foote Nehemiah Scudder Loading …