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Calhoun, John Caldwell

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18 Mar. 1782

Obituary Addresses Delivered on the Death of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, 7; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Obituary Addresses Delivered on the Death of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, a Senator of South Carolina, in the Senate of the United States, April 1, 1850. Washington DC: Jno. T. Towers, 1850.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, Inclusive. Edited by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and Bruce A. Ragsdale. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

–31 Mar. 1850.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729; St. Phillips Churchyard, Charleston Co., SC, 2–3, microfilm 22,723, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Lawyer, politician.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729; Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 2 Nov. 1812, 535.

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the Second Session of the Twelfth Congress; Begun and Held at the City of Washington, November 2, 1812, and in the Thirty-Seventh Year of the Independence of the Said States. Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1826.

Born near Hutchinson’s Mill, Ninety-Sixth District (later Calhoun Mill, Mount Carmel, McCormick Co.), South Carolina.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Son of Patrick Calhoun and Martha Caldwell.

Obituary Addresses Delivered on the Death of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, 7–8; Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 5:632.

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Obituary Addresses Delivered on the Death of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, a Senator of South Carolina, in the Senate of the United States, April 1, 1850. Washington DC: Jno. T. Towers, 1850.

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, with Annals of the College History. 6 vols. New York: Henry Holt, 1911.

Graduated from Yale, 1804, in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut.

Current and Allen, John C. Calhoun, vii.

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Current, Richard N., and William F. Allen. John C. Calhoun. New York: Washington Square Press, 1966.

Attended Litchfield Law School, Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.

Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 5:632.

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Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, with Annals of the College History. 6 vols. New York: Henry Holt, 1911.

Admitted to bar, 1807, and practiced law in Abbeville, Abbeville Co., South Carolina.

Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, 5:632.

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Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, with Annals of the College History. 6 vols. New York: Henry Holt, 1911.

Member of South Carolina House of Representatives, 1808–1809.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Married Floride Bonneau Calhoun, 8 Jan. 1811, in Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina.

“Calhoun, John C(aldwell),” Encyclopedia Britannica, 2:741; Holcomb, Marriage and Death Notices from the (Charleston) Times, 239.

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The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. 32 vols. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1986.

Holcomb, Brent H., comp. Marriage and Death Notices from the (Charleston) Times, 1800–1821. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979.

Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1811–1817.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729; Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 2 Nov. 1812, 535.

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U.S. Secretary of War, 1817–1825.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Among founders of All Souls Unitarian Church, 1822, in Washington DC.

“John C. Calhoun,” Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography, http://uudb.org/articles/johnccalhoun.html (accessed 5 Sept. 2013).

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Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. http://uudb.org/.

Vice president of U.S. under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, 1825–1832.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Member of U.S. Senate, 1832–1843, 1845–1850.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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U.S. Secretary of State, 1844–1845.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Appointed chairman of U.S. Congress Committee on Finance, 1845.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, 729.

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Died in Washington DC.

“John C. Calhoun,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, May 1850, 401.

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“John C. Calhoun,” United States Democratic Review 26, no. 143 (May 1850), 401–414.

Buried in Charleston.

St. Phillips Churchyard, Charleston Co., SC, pp. 2–3, microfilm 22,723, item 3, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

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