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John Caldwell Calhoun (/ k æ l ˈ h uː n /; [1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.
By 1869, Calhoun moved to the Florence Plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas, which was inherited by his wife through her mother. [2] By 1881–1882, he acquired a few more plantations in Chicot County: Harwood, Hebron, Luna, Fawnwood, Patria, Hyner's, and Latrobe. [2] He also acquired the Sunnyside Plantation from the Starling family for US ...
Pickens was an uncle (through his marriage to Rebecca Florida Calhoun) to John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), who was a leading American politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun's home, Fort Hill, is now located on the campus of Clemson University in Pickens County, South Carolina. It ...
The Calhoun/Colhoun family is a prominent political family in the United States and is a key political family in U.S. history.The Calhouns rose to power in the South prior to the Civil War and today continue to hold political power and influence through private-sector leadership and control in the South as well as in the Midwest and in New England.
Unnamed Calhoun (1839–1839) John Calhoun Clemson (1841–1871) Floride Elizabeth Clemson (1842–1871) Cornelia "Nina" Clemson (1855–1858) Elizabeth Calhoun Sep 1819 – 1820 no spouse: Died in infancy Patrick Calhoun Feb 19, 1821 – Jun 1, 1858 no spouse: Captain, 2nd Dragoons: John Caldwell Calhoun Jr. May 17, 1823 – Jul 31, 1855
In the years preceding Anna Calhoun Clemson's death, she and her husband discussed starting an agricultural college in upstate South Carolina. They decided that the college would be situated in Fort Hill and that John C. Calhoun's house would remain on the land. The house still stands at the center of Clemson University's campus.
Patrick Calhoun (March 21, 1856 – June 16, 1943) was the grandson of John C. Calhoun and Floride Calhoun, and the great-grandson of his namesake Patrick Calhoun. He is best known as a railroad baron of the late 19th century, and as the founder of Euclid Heights, Ohio .
Duff's daughter, Margaret Maria, was the mother of Calhoun's grandson, also named John Caldwell Calhoun. [4] During his second term, Jackson replaced Calhoun with Martin Van Buren as vice president. From 1835 to 1838, Green edited The Reformation , a radically partisan publication, devoted to free trade, states' rights , and the idea of ...