Calhoun, John C.
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Calhoun, John C. (1782–1850), politician and states'‐rights champion.For over a generation John Caldwell Calhoun dominated politics both in his native South Carolina and the entire
South, and exerted a powerful national influence. Born near Abbeville on the South Carolina frontier, Calhoun graduated from Yale in 1804, entered the bar in 1807, served in the state legislature, and in 1810 was elected to Congress. Marriage to his cousin Floride in 1811 brought him a large plantation. Early in his congressional career Calhoun exhibited strong nationalism, ranking as a leading “war hawk,” supporting the
War of 1812 and thereafter advocating federal internal improvements, a national bank, and the protective tariff of 1816. As James
Monroe's secretary of war (1817–1825), Calhoun reorganized and modernized the department. By the time he served as vice president (under both John Quincy
Adams and Andrew
Jackson), Calhoun had shifted to a states' right position. His influential
South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828), an attack on the tariff of 1818, argued that protective
tariffs were unconstitutional, and that states retained their sovereignty when they entered the Union. The rise of
anti‐slavery sentiment and northern voting power profoundly influenced his thinking; realizing that white southerners lacked the votes to override the North, he hoped to find a mechanism to preserve southern rights and interests within the Union. His theories of
nullification and state interposition offered a third path between unconditional unionists and secessionists. During the Nullification Crisis of 1828–1833, Calhoun resigned the vice presidency (1832) and took a seat in the U.S. Senate to advocate his state's views. Briefly serving as secretary of state under John
Tyler (1844–1845), Calhoun helped secure the annexation of Texas as a slave state. Returning to the Senate in 1845, he vigorously opposed the
Compromise of 1850, seeing it as a thinly veiled attack on slaveholders, and came ominously close to advocating secession in the days preceding his death.
See also
Bank of the United States, First and Second;
Civil War: Causes;
Federal Government, Executive Branch: Department of State;
Federal Government, Legislative Branch: Senate;
Slavery: Development and Expansion of Slavery;
Texas Republic and Annexation.
Bibliography
Robert L. Meriwether and Clyde Wilson, eds., The Papers of John C. Calhoun, 23 vols. to date, 1959–.
John Niven , John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union, 1988.
Eric H. Walther
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