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UPDATE: 1995-10-09
John Caldwell CALHOUN V.Pres-USA
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Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782-1850) Cousin of John Ewing Colhoun and Joseph
Calhoun. Born near Mount Carmel, S.C., March 18, 1782. Member of South Carolina
tate house of representatives, 1808; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 6th
District, 1811-1817; U.S. Secretary of War, 1817-1825; Vice President of the
United States, 1825-1832; U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1832-1843,
1845-1850; U.S. Secretary of State, 1844-1845. Died in Washington, D.C., March
31, 1850. Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Calhoun counties in Ala., Ark., Fla.,
Ga., Ill., Iowa, Mich., Miss., S.C., Tex. and W.Va. are named for him. (See also
his congressional biography.)CALHOUN, John Caldwell, 1782-1850
Years of Service: 1832-1837; 1837-1843; 1845-1850
Party: Nullifier; Democrat; Democrat
CALHOUN, John Caldwell, (cousin of John Ewing Colhoun and JosephCalhoun), 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; was graduated from Yale College in 1804; studied law, was 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 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 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 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
DAB; Calhoun, John C. The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Edited by Robert
Meriwether, W. Edwin Hemphill, and Clyde N. Wilson. 22 vols. to date. Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 1959-; Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun. 3
vols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944-1951.
UPDATE: 1996-11-05
From a booklet on the Pendleton Historic District, sent to Terry McLean,
Anaheim CA, by Jeanette Meinecke. FILE: Enc P-245.
MI CASA. Friendville, Dunean, Mi Casa, Belvedere - the names have been many
for this house on the hill. The name Mi Casa (my home) was given by Mrs. John
C. CALHOUN, widow of the vice president, when she moved from Fort Hill to make
her home here. [Dr. John B. ADGER] sold [Mi Casa] to Mrs. CALHOUN, who had
just sold Fort Hill to a son, Andrew Pickens CALHOUN. She named it Mi Casa and
resided there until her death in 1866. The Thomas Green CLEMSONs resided with
her for a time....Map No. 28. Located at 430 S. Mechanic St."
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NOTE: If this date of birth is correct, his mother would be over 60 when he
was born.
UPDATE: 1995-11-18
1727 - born in Ireland
1733 - moved with parents and siblings to America. Settled near Chestnut Level,
Lancaster Co., PA
1746 - approx; moved with extended family to Augusta Co., VA 1755 - approx;
moved with extended fmaily to Long Cane, SC.
1796 - died Abbeville Dist., SC.Many years a member of SC legislature.
JOSEPH HABERSHAM HISTORICAL COLLECTION [I believe this is Vol. I - tmc]
p. 94-95. "Gen. Andrew PICKENS - Hon. F. W. PICKENS writes to Chas. H.
ALLEN, Abbeville, SC.)
Edgewood, 26th March 1848. Dear Sir: -... In 1761 the settlement on Long
Cane was nearly exterminated by the terrible massacre of the Indians ...
After that massacre in 1761, Ezekiel CALHOUN fled to the Waxhaws, the nearest
white settlement, for protection.
My grandfather [Gen. Andrew PICKENS] lived there, and then got acquainted
with my grandmother, who was the daughter of Ezekiel CALHOUN, and came back to
the CALHOUN's settlement [at Long Cane] with them, and married there...."
p. 97-98. "CALHOUN Settlement - Hon. J. C. CALHOUN writes Nov. 21, 1847,
Fort Hill, to Chas. H. ALLEN:
"My father (Patrick CALHOUN) with his three brothers and his sister with her
husband arrived in this district (Abbeville), February 1756, and settled in a
group in what is now known as CALHOUN's Settlement, at the fort [sic] of the
two
streams of that name. The names of his brothers were James, the oldest,
Ezekiel, the next, William, the third, my father being the youngest. The
sister had married Mr. NOBLE, and the late Governor NOBLE was her grandson.
My father settled on the place owned recently by a son of my brother Patrick,
where a monument is raised to his memory. The elder brother settled on a
placed afterwards owned by my brother James, and now owned by Mrs. PARKER.
Ezekiel settled on the place on which she resides. William in the fork of
CALHOUN's Creek and Little River; and Mr. NOBLE in the fork of the two creeks
of the name of CALHOUN.
"I am not certain who accompanied them, or who immediately followed them and
settled in the neighborhood. But among their very early neighbors were
NORRIS, who after the death of Ezekiel, married his widow; a family of the
name of MERCER and one of the name of HOUSTON, of which Squire HOUSTON is a
descendant, and probably can give you some information. Our family, however,
were the pioneers, and my impression is, came alone. My father kept a journal
of their emigration from Wythe County, as it is now called, in Virginia, but
then the extreme limits to which the white population had advanced...."