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