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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.
John C. Calhoun: 1832–1843 Served after being vice president 1845–1850 Served after being vice president. Died in office Tennessee: Andrew Johnson: 1857–1862 1875 Served after being vice president. Died in office Al Gore: 1985–1993 Resigned to become vice president Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson: 1949–1961 Senate minority leader 1953–1955
His father, Andrew Pickens Calhoun, was a planter. [1] He had a brother, Patrick Calhoun. [1] His paternal grandfather, John C. Calhoun, served as the Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832. [2] [3] He was educated in Demopolis, Alabama [1] and graduated from South Carolina College in 1863. [4]
In U.S. politics, the Great Triumvirate (known also as the Immortal Trio) refers to a triumvirate of three statesmen who dominated American politics for much of the first half of the 19th century, namely Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. [1]
In 1935 when she was still in high school in Greensboro, North Carolina, Coit—like many people in the South at that time—venerated John C. Calhoun. In her eyes his life was heroic. [4] Calhoun was "a congressman and vice president under two presidents" [4] and "later a symbol of the lost cause of defending slavery."
The city of Charleston, S.C., began dismantling a 100-foot-tall statue of former vice president John C. Calhoun early Wednesday, a day after officials voted to bring it down. Where statues have ...
Calhoun was born on the Bath plantation in the Abbeville District of South Carolina, in February 1817. She was one of seven children. She adored her father, politician John C. Calhoun, and remained close to him until his death in 1850.
In April 1850, former U.S. Vice President and Secretary of State John C. Calhoun was buried in a Fisk coffin at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC; President Zachary Taylor died unexpectedly in July, 1850 and was entombed in a Fisk case.