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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.
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.
A staunch defender of the institution of slavery, and a slave-owner himself, Calhoun was the Senate's most prominent states' rights advocate, and his doctrine of nullification professed that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional.
Politics was the essence of his life’s work; however, he established himself as a planter first with Bath Plantation and later Fort Hill. During the antebellum period, his national political career made the South Carolinian one of the most powerful and outspoken statesmen in our nation’s history.
Jun 11, 2018 · John Caldwell Calhoun was a South Carolina politician who served in several state and federal offices from 1808 until his death in 1850. He was a candidate for the presidency of the United States several times without ascending to the post, but he nevertheless became one of the most powerful figures in the pre– Civil War United States.
John C. Calhoun, (born March 18, 1782, Abbeville district, S.C., U.S.—died March 31, 1850, Washington, D.C.), U.S. politician. A graduate of Yale University, he became an ardent Jeffersonian Republican and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1811–17).
president of United States. Also known as: Old Hickory. Written by. Harold Whitman Bradley. Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1954–72. Member, Tennessee House of Representatives, 1964–72. Author of The United States, 1492–1877 and others. Harold Whitman Bradley. Fact-checked by.
