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John Caldwell Calhoun (/ k æ l ˈ h uː n /; 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. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
Hace 5 días · John C. Calhoun championed states’ rights and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South. He spent the last 20 years of his life in the U.S. Senate working to unite the South against the abolitionist attack on slavery.
- John C. Calhoun was an American political leader who was a congressman, the secretary of war, the seventh vice president (1825–32), a senator, and...
- U.S. President James Monroe appointed John C. Calhoun secretary of war in 1817.
- To a degree not exceeded by that of any of his contemporaries, John C. Calhoun was consumed by a burning passion to achieve the U.S. presidency. He...
9 de nov. de 2009 · John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) of South Carolina was one of the most influential politicians in the United States and a leading voice for the South during the antebellum era.
John Caldwell Calhoun (18 de marzo de 1782-31 de marzo de 1850) fue un líder político de los estados del sur de los Estados Unidos, un destacado filósofo político de la primera mitad del siglo XIX y uno de los principales actores en las grandes disputas políticas en su país.
Calhoun’s main goal in the last decade of his life was to destroy party differences in the South and unite all southerners in a singular sectional block to extort pro-slavery policies from the North.
12 de jun. de 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.
Calhoun easily won the vice presidency—making him president of the Senate—while the presidential election was decided by the House of Representatives, which elected John Quincy Adams over popular-vote winner Andrew Jackson.
