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	John C. Calhoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Caldwell Calhoun died on March 31, 1850 of tuberculosis in Washington, DC, at the age of 68, and was buried in St. Phillips Churchyard in Charleston, South Carolina.
		John Calhoun was the son of Irish immigrant Patrick Calhoun.
		John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850), was a prominent United States politician of the first half of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_C._Calhoun (938 words)

	Calhoun, John Caldwell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Calhoun first served as Vice President (1825–29) under John Quincy Adams.
		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.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Calhoun.html (818 words)

	Today in History: March 18
		Calhoun was clearly a dying man as he was assisted to his desk on the Senate floor a few minutes past noon on March 4, 1850.
		At the end of his senatorial career, Calhoun opposed the Compromise of 1850 because of its proposed limits on slavery during the westward expansion of the nation.
		Calhoun is remembered for his determined defense of the institution of slavery.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/mar18.html (527 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: John C. Calhoun
		John Caldwell Calhoun died in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 1850 and was buried in St. Phillips Churchyard in Charleston.
		Calhoun was vice president of the United States in 1824 under John Quincy Adams and was re-elected in 1828 under Andrew Jackson.
		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,
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/calhoun/jcc.htm (330 words)

	John C. Calhoun
		John C. Calhoun converted from being a nationalist to a federalist in order to maintain his goals of, first and foremost, saving the liberty of all American citizens, and secondly, retaining the unity of the union.
		Calhoun's basis for nullification was grounded in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.
		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.
	www.studyworld.com /john_c_calhoun.htm (1742 words)

	John C. Calhoun
		John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville, on the frontier of South Carolina, the fourth child, third son of Scots-Irish immigrant Patrick Calhoun and his second wife Martha Caldwell.
		A political sparring partner to John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, Calhoun is best remembered for the rallying cries of "states' rights" and "nullification," both of which he invoked to support his steadfast opposition to tariffs on manufactures and his defense of slavery.
		John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) was a United States representative, senator, secretary of war, secretary of state, and vice president.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/johnccalhoun.html (1921 words)

	John Caldwell Calhoun
		The Calhoun's keel was laid by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Va on 4 June 1962; Sponsored by Miss Rosalie J. Calhoun, great great granddaughter of John C. Calhoun, SSBN 630 was launched 22 June 1963.
		Calhoun was untiring in defense of the South.
		Calhoun, a brilliant theoretician, advocated a fine balance of nullification and the use of "concurrent majorities" to prevent the dissolution of the Union.
	jacq.org /Politics/calhoun.htm (3853 words)

	John C. Calhoun
		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.
		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.
	www.constitution.org /jcc/intro_jr.htm (298 words)

	The Man - John C. Calhoun
		Calhoun resigned from the latter vice-presidency in 1832 to be the Senator from South Carolina.
		John loved the land also, and it would be the basis for much of his political motivation.
		At the end of their debate, with neither backing down, Dwight remarked about Calhoun's talent, and told him that he could one day be President of the United States.
	sciway3.net /2001/john-c-calhoun/Man.htm (830 words)

	MSN Encarta - John C. Calhoun
		Calhoun was secretary of state in the cabinet of President John Tyler in 1844-45.
		Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782-1850), seventh vice president of the United States (1825-32).
		Calhoun was born on March 18, 1782, near Abbeville, South Carolina, and educated at Yale College (now Yale University).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563598/Calhoun_John_Caldwell.html (329 words)

	JCC--Text 1--Intro
		John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, secretary of war, secretary of state, vice president of the United States--twice--was one of the giants of 19th century American politics.
		John Calhoun described the elder Calhoun as more Jeffersonian than Jefferson--a staunch strict constructionist, the elder Calhoun opposed the Constitution because it allowed "people other than those of South Carolina to tax the people of South Carolina," thus violating the very revolutionary principles that he had fought for during the war.
		Like his fellow triumvirs, Calhoun was acknowledged as one of his age's only legitimate successors to George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson--but ironically, none of the three ever achieved the summit of his hopes, the presidency.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/CALHOUN/jcc1.html (6057 words)

	Territorial Kansas Online - Biographical Sketch - John Calhoun
		John Calhoun, who would gain notoriety as a leader of proslavery partisans in Kansas Territory during the 1850s, was born on October 14, 1806, in Boston, Massachusetts.
		Calhoun and the moderate delegates urged submission of the constitution to the populace of the territory to win ratification and then submittal to the U.S. Congress for final adoption.
		This position offered Calhoun prominence within the new territory, as his office was one with a large staff and a lucrative budget.
	www.territorialkansasonline.org /cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=bio_sketches/calhoun_john (562 words)

	The History of Clemson University -- John Caldwell Calhoun
		John C. Calhoun was elected vice president in 1824 and served with President John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829.
		Calhoun, at the same time, lost national support for his defense of slavery as a "positive good" in the context of a class struggle, and he lost local support in South Carolina and the South from the hotheaded politicians called "fire-eaters" for his conciliatory attitudes toward the North.
		Calhoun was elected to the Legislature at a time when his area of the state, the "Backcountry," was receiving greater representation as a result of the Compromise of 1808.
	www.clemson.edu /welcome/history/forthill/calhoun.htm (2632 words)

	A Moment in Time: John C. Calhoun -Part II
		Calhoun, the acknowledged social leader of the nation's capital, led the ladies of Washington in ostracizing Peggy O'Neale Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John Eaton.
		Content: In 1828 South Carolinian and career politician John C. Calhoun was elected Vice President.
		Lead: In 1832 as a part of a rising and bitter dispute with Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president to resign from office.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2209 (468 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > John C. Calhoun: A Featured Biography
		In addition to fifteen years as a U.S. Senator, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina served as President of the Senate (Vice President of the U.S.).
		When a 1957 Senate committee announced that Calhoun had been selected as one of the Famous Five, chairman John F. Kennedy praised Calhoun for being a "forceful logician of state sovereignty" and a "masterful defender of the rights of a political minority against the dangers of an unchecked majority."
		Calhoun was the Senate's most prominent states' rights advocate, and his doctrine of nullification professed that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Calhoun.htm (162 words)

	John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures - 1850
		This is among John C. Calhoun's most famous speeches.
		John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures - 1850
		Calhoun, so ill he had to be helped out of the Chamber after the speech by two of his friends, died on March 31, 1850.
	www.nationalcenter.org /CalhounClayCompromise.html (2726 words)

	John C. Calhoun
		John Caldwell Calhoun was born in Abbeville, South Carolina, the son of a small farmer.
		In the Election of 1824 Calhoun was elected vice president under John Quincy Adams; the president and vice president had a rocky relationship.
		Calhoun served briefly in the state assembly, but was elected to Congress where he quickly aligned himself with the War Hawks.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h272.html (400 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Calhoun's role in the ostracism of Peggy Eaton (see O'Neill, Margaret), wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, and the disclosure of Calhoun's support many years before for censure of Jackson's actions in the invasion of Florida, further weakened his position.
		Calhoun, John C. John Caldwell Calhoun, statesman and political philosopher, was vice-president (1825
		The son of a slaveholding up-country farmer, Calhoun was educated at Moses Waddell's Log College in Georgia and at Yale University and studied law under Tapping Reeve in Litchfield, Conn.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0048830-0&templatename=/article/article.html (670 words)

	John Calhoun
		Both Calhoun and John Quincy Adams were charter members (1826) of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, DC.
		John C. Calhoun and His Defense of Liberty an essay
		Calhoun and his wife are buried in the graveyard of St. Philips Church (Episcopalian), but his wife is buried in the part of the churchyard on the side of the street of the church, while Calhoun is buried in the part of the churchyard that is across the street.
	www.famousuus.com /bios/john_calhoun.htm (361 words)

	MATHEW BRADY GALLERY, NY - John C. Calhoun
		Mathew Brady photographed John C. Calhoun around the winter of 1849 and used the image as the basis for the production of many additional portraits, including this lithograph from The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
		Calhoun remained a powerful and charismatic figure in Washington until his death, the perpetual Democratic opponent of Whig politicians Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.
		Charles E. Lester, The Gallery's biographer, wrote that because Calhoun was "born during the Revolutionary struggle he was taught to venerate liberty, and that lesson became the guide of his life.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/brady/gallery/48gal.html (221 words)

	The Papers of John C. Calhoun
		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.
		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.
		However, as the Calhoun Papers staff prepared the concluding volume of letters, speeches, and remarks, they discovered evidence that Calhoun had intended the two essays to be a single, unified work of political theory and a critical examination of America's remarkable experiment in republican government.
	www.sc.edu /uscpress/1993older/calhoun.html (1348 words)

	Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
		John Caldwell Calhoun [1782-1850] was a lawyer, statesman, and champion of Southern rights.
		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.
		The Kingdom of Calhoun (or Calhoun County, Illinois, USA) is a long peninsula between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
	www.outfitters.com /illinois/calhoun (311 words)

	United Methodist missionaries: John Calhoun
		The Rev. John Calhoun is a missionary of the General Board of Global Ministries assigned to the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy in Moscow, Russia.
		From 1994-95, John served as vicar (intern) of Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem.
		In 1991-92, John served as a lay member of the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy, coordinating the congregation's outreach ministry.
	gbgm-umc.org /mission/people/calhounj00.html (279 words)

	John Calhoun
		In 1824 Calhoun was elected vice president under John Quincy Adams.
		(1) John Caldwell Calhoun, speech in the Senate (4th March, 1850)
		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)

	John C. Calhoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Caldwell Calhoun died on March 31, 1850 of tuberculosis in Washington, DC, at the age of 68, and was buried in St. Phillips Churchyard in Charleston, South Carolina.
		Calhoun's fierce defense of slavery and determination to advance the slave states' cause politically played a major role in deepening, and entrenching, the growing divide between the northern and southern states on this issue, wielding the threat of southern secession to back slave-state demands.
		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.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_C._Calhoun (1058 words)

	John C. Calhoun -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		An influential Southern statesman, John C. Calhoun was a fervent supporter of states' rights and the expansion of slavery.
		"Calhoun, John C.." Britannica Student Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
		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.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273457 (66 words)

	Vice President Bio John Calhoun
		John Calhoun was one of five men in the race for president in 1824 finishing behind John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson
		Calhoun is credited with coining the term 'senators' who until then, had been referred to as gentlemen of congress
		Shortly thereafter Jackson discovered that Calhoun had begun proceedings to court martial him as general, a charge Calhoun never denied
	www.usatrivia.com /vpbicalh.html (281 words)

	CalhounFamilyHistory
		John Caldwell Calhoun was born in the Abbeville District on March 18, 1782.
		Notes for JOHN B. John Calhoun was born in sometime in 1800 in Abbeville, South Carolina.
		John C. Calhoun was largely self-educated before he attended college at Yale as a junior in 1801.
	home.earthlink.net /~johnbaum/CalhounFamilyHistory.htm (12080 words)

	Soaring to New Heights of Academic Excellence
		John C. Calhoun Elementary School has 260 students in grades K4--5.
		We are located on Hwy 81 in a rural community called Calhoun Falls, SC.
	www.acsd.k12.sc.us /jcce (25 words)

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