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Jun 12, 2006 · John C. Calhoun, the South’s recognized intellectual and political leader from the 1820s until his death in 1850, devoted much of his remarkable intellectual energy to defending slavery. He developed a two-point defense. One was a political theory that the rights of a minority section—in particular, the South—needed special protecting in ...
Jan 29, 2024 · John C. Calhoun. March 18, 1782–March 31, 1850. John C. Calhoun was a staunch defender of slavery, states' rights, and nullification. He served the nation as a Congressional Representative and Senator from South Carolina, U.S. Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and Vice President of the United States during the Antebellum Era.
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina first entered politics in 1808 when he was elected to the state legislature. He moved to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1811, where he served almost four terms before resigning to become secretary of war under President James Monroe, a position he held from 1817 to 1825. In both positions, Calhoun was ...
Jun 11, 2018 · John C. Calhoun [1] (1782-1850) Sources [2] Vice president, senator, and southern nationalist Early Life. John Caldwell Calhoun [3] was born on 18 March 1782 in the South Carolina [4] uplands near the Savannah River in a settlement founded several decades earlier by his grandfather.
John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer and proponent of a strong federal government and protective ...
John C. Calhoun. Title Vice President, Secretary of War, Secretary of State. Affiliation American. Date of Birth - Death March 18, 1782-March 31, 1850. John C. Calhoun served as one of the most influential politicians in the United States during the antebellum era, and his shifting political loyalties exemplifies the politics of many Americans ...
Legacy of John C. Calhoun. Certainly the American Civil War was too vast an event to be the responsibility of any one man, but it can be argued that Calhoun contributed as much to its coming as did abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison and Pres. Abraham Lincoln.The man himself was an enigma.A staunch nationalist during the first half of his public life, one who told the son of Alexander ...
