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  Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce
Promoting and marketing Calhoun County resources as a whole is our goal.
Calhoun County is centrally located within the state, which makes it a prime location for both work and family.
On the heels of one of the most successful legislative years for business in recent memory, business members of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and local chambers across the state are preparing for an equally successful 2008 legislative session.
www.calhouncountychamber.org   (185 words)

  
  Calhoun, John Caldwell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Calhoun, prodded by his wife and his supporters, offended the President in the Eaton affair (see O’Neill, Margaret).
As the preeminent spokesman for the South, Calhoun tried to reconcile the preservation of the Union with the fact that under the Union the South’s dominant agricultural economy was being neglected and even injured for the benefit of the ever-increasing commercial and industrial power of the North.
In rejecting the Wilmot Proviso, Calhoun set forth the theory that all territories were held in common by the states and that the federal government merely served as a trustee of the lands.
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 John C. Calhoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calhoun had developed a theory of nullification that states (or minorities) could nullify federal legislation, based on the fact that individual states had ratified the Constitution.
Calhoun led the pro-slavery faction in the senate in the 1830s and 1840s, opposing both abolitionism, and attempts to limit the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
Calhoun returned to the Senate in 1848, participating in the epic Senate struggle the produced the Compromise of 1850 despite his deteriorating health.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_C._Calhoun   (895 words)

  
 John C. Calhoun
Calhoun thought that England was challenging the liberty of the American people, and that only a strong federal government had the power to defeat Great Britain.
The reason for this was that Calhoun still thought that the tariff was for the revenue of the federal government, and not for the sole purpose of promoting the agenda of one section, the north, over another's, the south.
Calhoun's basis for nullification was grounded in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.
www.studyworld.com /john_c_calhoun.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Calhoun County, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calhoun County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.
It was named for John C. Calhoun, member of the United States Senate from South Carolina.
Out of the total population, 23.60% of those under the age of 18 and 20.40% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calhoun_County,_Florida   (399 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: John C. Calhoun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Calhoun was secretary of war under President James Monroe from 1817 to 1825 and ran for president in the 1824 election along with four others,
Calhoun was vice president of the United States in 1824 under John Quincy Adams and was re-elected in 1828 under Andrew Jackson.
Jackson was for the Tariff of 1828 and caused Calhoun to be opposed to Jackson, which led to Calhoun's resignation in 1832.
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 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Calhoun
Cherokee Indians had populated the area that became Calhoun before the last of them were forced westward to present-day Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears in 1838-39.
Calhoun High School was named a Georgia School of Excellence in 1998, and Calhoun Middle School was thus named in 2001.
The population of Calhoun at the beginning of the twenty-first century was 10,667, of which 78 percent was white, nearly 8 percent African American, and 17 percent Hispanic.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/CitiesCounties/Cities&id=h-1410   (717 words)

  
 www.UConnHuskies.com
For the second consecutive year, Jim Calhoun was a finalist for election to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and on April 4, 2005 was named one of five individuals to earn the sport’s highest individual honor.
Calhoun will be enshrined in the Class of 2005 on September 9, 2005 in Springfield, Mass., becoming one of only 263 individuals to ever be so honored.
After directing Connecticut to both the 1999 and 2004 NCAA National Championships, Jim Calhoun was honored on separate occasions as the recipient of the Winged Foot Award from the New York Athletic Club, recognizing him as their National Coach of the Year.
www.uconnhuskies.com /sports/MBasketball/Coaching/Calhounbio.html   (1072 words)

  
 John C. Calhoun
Calhoun was raised a Calvinist, and remained a philosophical Calvinist in his firm work ethic, his resistance to such simple pleasures as dancing, and his bleak view of human nature.
Early in his career Calhoun was an ardent nationalist, a supporter of the War of 1812 against England, and a cautious supporter of the 1816 tariff (always a point of contention between North and South) as a source of revenue to replenish the Federal treasury after the war.
Calhoun left Congress in 1817 to serve ably as Secretary of War in the Monroe administration, rising to prominence on the national stage at age 35.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/johnccalhoun.html   (1921 words)

  
 John C. Calhoun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Calhoun served as U.S. senator from Sourth Carolina, secretary of war, secretary of state, and twice as vice-president, and was a dominant figure, alongside such men as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
Calhoun saw himself as the heir of Thomas Jefferson and the Republican tradition, but he rejected both the Lockean view of natural rights and the optimistic Enlightenment view of human nature and human societies.
Calhoun went further, arguing that the United States was not a nation, but a confederation of nations, and attacked the key founding doctrines expounded by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in the Federalist Papers.
www.constitution.org /jcc/intro_jr.htm   (298 words)

  
 STAR TREK: New Frontier - Captain Mackenzie Calhoun
Calhoun was well liked by his peers but did not usually engender himself with those in the higher echelons of Starfleet Command.
Calhoun is fair-minded and is frank almost to a fault.
Captain Calhoun is an intuitive and instinctive tactician and strategist and he is a keen judge of character.
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 Calhoun College
Calhoun thus gained both in wealth and might as the market for cotton expanded during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Calhoun occupied national political office in this country for almost 40 years, wielding enormous political influence on the preservation of slavery.
In 1930, Yale University decided that one of its residential colleges should be named "Calhoun College," in honor of this man. When Yale University built Harkness Tower in the 1930s, Calhoun's statue was installed as one of the eight Yale graduate "Worthies" of honor.
www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/calhoun1.html   (420 words)

  
 John C. Calhoun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Calhoun felt that South Carolina, and the South in general, were being exploited by the nation's protective tariff, a high tax on imported goods.
Calhoun resigned as vice president in December 1832 and entered the Senate as the elected spokesman of South Carolina.
Calhoun was born near Abbeville District, South Carolina, and was an honor graduate at Yale College in 1804.
www.worldbook.com /features/presidents/html/calhoun.htm   (569 words)

  
 NIFLA - National Institute of Family and Life Advocates
Calhoun is a 1979 Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and graduated from the University of Iowa Medical School with a MD in 1983.
Calhoun is diplomate board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in general Obstetrics and Gynecology and in the sub-specialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Calhoun serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Washington, DC and as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
www.nifla.org /bio5.asp   (394 words)

  
 Calhoun Community College
Of Calhoun's 302 full-time employees, 133 serve on the college faculty.
Calhoun successfully continues to meet the educational and training demands of a unique and highly diverse population.
Calhoun Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097: Telephone number 404-679-4501) to award Associate Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates.
www.calhoun.cc.al.us /calhoun.htm   (369 words)

  
 Calhoun --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Calhoun, John C. An influential Southern statesman, John C. Calhoun was a fervent supporter of states' rights and the expansion of slavery.
Calhoun served as a member of the United States House of Representatives at the time of the War of 1812 and later as secretary of war, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from South Carolina.
Calhoun was elected vice president in 1824 under John Quincy Adams and was reelected in 1828 under Andrew Jackson.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018659?tocId=9018659   (781 words)

  
 John C. Calhoun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The son of a slave-holding up-country farmer, Calhoun was educated at Moses Waddell's Log College in Georgia and at Yale University and studied law under Tapping Reeve at Litchfield, Connecticut.
Calhoun supported the "American System", which called for full use of federal power to assist American industry through a protective tariff and to promote commerce through a federally chartered Bank of the United States and through federally financed road, canal, and harbor construction.
Calhoun's hard core view of the "American System" changed, partially due to the industrial dependency of South Carolina on the cotton industry.
library.thinkquest.org /3055/graphics/people/calhoun.html   (342 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Calhoun is a complex figure in his own right, though somewhat influenced by the liberal and Enlightenment tradition, he stil rejected the liberal philosophy of natural rights and the Enlightenment's positive view of human nature.
Calhoun attached a fervent willingness to defend the American republic, to stave off dissolution of the federal regime, and eschew consolidation as a means of strengthening the republic.
Calhoun was a member of that Democrat Party, yet he was opposed to the nascent demagoguery of Andrew Jackson and he rightly recognized the "limitations of the emerging plebiscitarian spirit within American democracy." He insisted only delineating himself as a "Republican" throughout his career.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826213332?v=glance   (2797 words)

  
 SSRC :: Programs :: Craig Calhoun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Under Calhoun's leadership, the SSRC has been reinvigorated as a leader of public social science, research on critical social issues, and support for leading young researchers.
Calhoun's own empirical research has ranged from Britain and France to China and three different African countries.
In more than ninety articles, he has also addressed the impact of technological change; the organization of community life; the relationship among tort law, risk, and business organizations; the anthropological study of education, kinship, and religion; and problems in contemporary globalization.
www.ssrc.org /programs/calhoun   (323 words)

  
 SI.com - College Basketball - Men - Calhoun expected to make full recovery after surgery - Thursday February 06, 2003 ...
Albertsen, Calhoun's urologist, said there were no problems during surgery at John Dempsey Hospital.
Calhoun is in his 17th season at Connecticut, and assistant George Blaney is coaching the team in his absence.
Calhoun has led the Huskies to national prominence, capped by an NCAA title in 1999.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/college/news/2003/02/06/uconn_calhoun_ap   (264 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / College / Men's basketball / A day unlike any other
Calhoun remembered back to his second season at Northeastern, when the Huskies were playing in a tournament in San Diego in which Kentucky -- under legendary coach Adolph Rupp, who is No. 2 in all-time Division 1 wins with 876 -- was playing.
As it became apparent with three minutes left that Calhoun was going to get No. 700, associate head coach and longtime friend George Blaney looked at Calhoun with a smile and said, "Dean Smith, Hank Iba." Calhoun shook his head with a laugh and told Blaney to buzz off.
Calhoun, who is light-years away from his days at Old Lyme -- he recently signed a contract extension that will increase his total compensation package to $1.5 million a year -- remains focused on the game at hand.
www.boston.com /sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2005/03/03/a_day_unlike_any_other   (757 words)

  
 Calhoun County Courthouse
Calhoun County's first courthouse was built in Morgan shortly after the county was created in 1854.
The act creating Calhoun County directed the justices of the county's new inferior court to select a "central and convenient place" as the county seat.
In 1923, voters of Calhoun County petitioned for a referendum to move the county seat from Morgan to Arlington.
www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/courthouses/calhounCH.htm   (395 words)

  
 The Papers of John C. Calhoun
A year after Calhoun's death in 1850, Richard Kenner Crallé, a former secretary in the Department of State and a friend of Calhoun's, was entrusted by the Calhoun heirs to edit the essays for publication.
Calhoun died on March 31, 1850, after a career of political service that began in 1808 and included membership in the South Carolina and United States Houses of Representatives, the United States Senate, the vice presidency, and executive posts as secretary of war and secretary of state.
The character of Calhoun's attempts is clearly illustrated by his philosophical confrontation of the doctrine that "all men are created equal" by declaring "the proposition to be untrue and mischievous" in a speech given on June 27, 1848.
www.sc.edu /uscpress/1993older/calhoun.html   (1348 words)

  
 Calhoun County, Illinois, USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Kingdom of Calhoun (or Calhoun County, Illinois, USA) is a long peninsula between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
Calhoun is recognized as the "Father of Nullification" [States Rights], a political idea that any state could nullify any federal law that the state felt was unconstitutional.
Although he died ten years before the outset of the Civil War, Calhoun's name is intertwined in most discussions of the causes of the war.
www.outfitters.com /illinois/calhoun   (311 words)

  
 Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse
Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains one of the major figures in American political thought, many of his critics have tried to discredit him as merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime.
He contends that Calhoun's view of democracy forms part of a philosophy of humankind and politics that has relevance beyond the American experience.
Calhoun's philosophy--his understanding of the need for ethical and political restraint and for institutional means for obtaining concurrence--is still relevant today, especially given the current growing ethnic and cultural conflict of the Western world.
www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall2004/cheek.htm   (465 words)

  
 Calhoun County Library--About the Library
Calhoun County Library is located in the County Seat at St. Matthews, South Carolina.
The Calhoun County Library has easy access to all its facilities with a ramp in back for the physically handicapped.
Calhoun County Library has a written internet policy which every user must read and sign before they are allowed to use the computer the first time.
www.calhoun.lib.sc.us /about.htm   (654 words)

  
 Calhoun's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Their authentic barbeque involves slow roasting combined with smoke-cooking to bring out the hidden delicious flavors in the meat.
Along with their famous barbeque, Calhoun's also offers farm raised catfish, smoked prime rib, and a variety of Grilled steaks, chicken and shrimp dishes.
Calhoun's currently has three locations in Knoxville, one in Lenoir City, one in Gatlinburg and two in Nashville.
www.coppercellar.com /cal   (81 words)

  
 John Calhoun
In 1824 Calhoun was elected vice president under John Quincy Adams.
Calhoun upheld the right of people to own slaves and presented the South's point of view in Senate debates on this issue.
Calhoun led the pro-slavery faction in Congress that opposed the admission of California and New Mexico as free states.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcalhoun.htm   (487 words)

  
 Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board - Park Detail
Lake Calhoun is part of the chain of Lakes and is now a popular site for fishing, windsurfing, swimming, sailing, canoeing, walking, jogging, biking and roller and in-line skating.
Lake Calhoun was formerly known as Lake Medoza or Lake of the Loons and was renamed in honor of John Caldwell Calhoun, U. Senator, Vice-President of the U.S. and Secretary of War under President Monroe.
There are 3 wells located in the Lake Calhoun area: Calhoun North just west of the entrance to the north beach parking lot, near the bike path; 3735 W. Calhoun Parkway near Thomas Beach; East Calhoun Parkway at 36th Street just past the memorial rock to the north.
www.minneapolisparks.org /?PageID=4&parkid=263   (338 words)

  
 Calhoun Community College
Calhoun Community College may remain open when area elementary and secondary schools are closed.
When weather conditions prevent the opening of the College or cause a delayed opening of the College, every effort will be made to make announcements on the following radio and TV stations by 6:00 a.m.
The same radio and TV stations will also carry closing announcements in the event that evening sessions or activities have to be cancelled on a day that the College was otherwise open.
www.calhoun.edu /disclaimer/closing.htm   (161 words)

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