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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South Carolina / USJohn Caldwell CALHOUN
(1782-1850)
Senate Years of Service:
1832-1843; 1845-1850Party: Democratic Republican;
Nullifier; DemocratCALHOUN, 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.
Philip’s Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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