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John C. Calhoun

7th vice president of the United States
Also known as: John Caldwell Calhoun
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Gerald M. Capers
Emeritus Professor of History, Tulane University, New Orleans. Author of John C. Calhoun, Opportunist: A Reappraisal and others.
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John C. Calhoun (born March 18, 1782, Abbeville district, South Carolina, U.S.ā€”died March 31, 1850, Washington, D.C.) was an American political leader who was a congressman, the secretary of war, the seventh vice president (1825ā€“32), a senator, and the secretary of state of the United States. He championed statesā€™ rights and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South. Calhoun was born to Patrick Calhoun, a well-to-do Scots-Irish farmer, and Martha Caldwell, both of...

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