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Senate Years of Service: 1832-1843; 1845-1850 Party: Democratic Republican; Nullifier; Democrat
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CALHOUN, John Caldwell, (cousin of John Ewing Colhoun and Joseph Calhoun),
a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina and a Vice
President of the United States; born near Calhoun Mills, Abbeville District
(now Mount Carmel, McCormick County), S.C., March 18, 1782; attended the common
schools and private academies; graduated from Yale College in 1804; studied
law, admitted to the bar in 1807, and commenced practice in Abbeville, S.C.;
also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, State house of representatives
1808-1809; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Twelfth and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to November 3, 1817, when
he resigned; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President James Monroe
1817-1825; elected vice president of the United States in 1824 with President
John Quincy Adams; reelected in 1828 with President Andrew Jackson and served
from March 4, 1825, to December 28, 1832, when he resigned, having been elected
as a Democratic Republican (later Nullifier) to the United States Senate on
December 12, 1832, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Y.
Hayne; reelected in 1834 and 1840 and served from December 29, 1832, until his
resignation, effective March 3, 1843; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of
President John Tyler 1844-1845; again elected to the United States Senate, as a
Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel E. Huger;
reelected in 1846 and served from November 26, 1845, until his death in
Washington, D.C., March 31, 1850; chairman, Committee on Finance (Twenty-ninth
Congress); interment in St. Philips Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Calhoun, John C.
The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Edited by Robert Meriwether, W.
Edwin Hemphill, and Clyde N. Wilson. 28 vols. to date. Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, 1959-; Bartlett, Irving H.
John C. Calhoun: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1993;
Cheek, H. Lee, Jr., ed.
John C. Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches. Lanham, Md.:
Nationa.l Book Network, 2003.
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