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Soon after John C. Calhoun's death in 1850, the Ladies' Calhoun Monument Association (LCMA) was formed "to aid in the erection, in or near the City of Charleston, of a monument sacred to the memory of John C. Calhoun." [1] However, the campaign initially struggled with fundraising, facing issues including embezzlement and lack of preparedness. [2]
John C. Calhoun [57] March 31, 1850: St. Phillips Churchyard Charleston: South Carolina: 8 Martin Van Buren [58] July 24, 1862: Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery Kinderhook: New York: 9 Richard M. Johnson [59] November 19, 1850: Frankfort Cemetery: Frankfort: Kentucky: 10 John Tyler [60] January 18, 1862: Hollywood Cemetery: Richmond ...
The Meriwether Monument is a pillar erected in 1916 at John C. Calhoun Park in North Augusta, South Carolina, to commemorate Thomas McKie Meriwether (December 4, 1852 – July 8, 1876), the only white man killed in the Hamburg massacre when white supremacist militias attacked African Americans in coordinated political violence, seeking to restore the Democratic Party to power and ...
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.
John C. Calhoun Monument: Removed and currently in an undisclosed location. Formerly: Charleston, South Carolina. Marion Square. 1887 [10] Statue of John C. Calhoun: Washington, D.C. United States Capitol. 1910 Frederick Ruckstull [11] Bust of John C. Calhoun Washington, D.C. United States Senate chamber. 1896 Theodore Augustus Mills [12]
Clemson University: Named after the Confederate soldier and son-in-law of John C. Calhoun that bequeathed the land to the state for the creation of an agricultural college. [28] Ehrhardt: Jackson Academy (private school): The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the "Confederates" [29] Greenville: Wade Hampton High School
In this 1892 photograph of Marion Square, the original version of the Calhoun Memorial can be seen. The square is the home to many monuments, including a Holocaust memorial, an obelisk dedicated to Wade Hampton, and a statue of John C. Calhoun in cast bronze atop a giant pillar. [11] The Calhoun monument is the second such structure in the square.
John C. Calhoun Academy, Walterboro, South Carolina (later renamed Colleton Preparatory Academy in 1990) John C. Calhoun Elementary School, Calhoun Falls, South Carolina; Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Calhoun Academy of the Arts (formerly Calhoun Street Elementary School), Anderson, SC