He announced his support of Democrat, and states rights proponent, John C. Calhoun.

* 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

Under President James Monroe, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun devised the first plans for Indian removal.

President John Quincy Adams assumed the Calhoun – Monroe policy and was determined to remove the Indians by non-forceful means, but Georgia refused to submit to Adams ' request and forced Adams to make a treaty with Creeks and Cherokees granting Georgia what it wanted.

His opponents included John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Henry Clay, and the hero of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson.

The turning point came with the debate on the Missouri Compromise in 1820 when he broke with his friend John C. Calhoun, who became the most outspoken national leader in favor of slavery.

An angry public elected a “ war hawk ” Congress, led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

Monroe made balanced Cabinet choices, naming a southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State.

Other candidates included James Buchanan, General Lewis Cass, Cave Johnson, John C. Calhoun, and Levi Woodbury.

In the House, antislavery Whigs led by John Quincy Adams voted against the war ; among Democrats, Senator John C. Calhoun was the most notable opponent of the declaration.

* John Calhoun Brown ( 1879 – 1964 ), merchant and mayor of Minden, Louisiana

In the years leading up to the Nullification Crisis, the resolutions divided Jeffersonian democrats, with states ' rights proponents such as John C. Calhoun supporting the Principles of ' 98 and President Andrew Jackson opposing them.

He won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers led by Vice President Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun had refused to associate in the Petticoat Affair.

* 1782 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Laboratory rats have also proved valuable in psychological studies of learning and other mental processes ( Barnett, 2002 ), as well as to understand group behavior and overcrowding ( with the work of John B. Calhoun on behavioral sink ).

Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.

In the less contested election for vice president, John C. Calhoun received 182 votes and was elected outright.

At one end of the room near the Old Supreme Court Chamber is a statue of John C. Calhoun.

As President of the Senate, John Adams cast twenty-nine tie-breaking votes, a record that no successor except for John C. Calhoun even threatened.

A Vice President could even serve under different administrations, as George Clinton and John C. Calhoun have done.

John C. Calhoun was the first Vice President to resign from office.

As a result, the Vice Presidency was left vacant 16 times — sometimes for nearly four years — until the next ensuing election and inauguration: eight times due to the death of the sitting president, resulting in the Vice Presidents becoming President ; seven times due to the death of the sitting Vice President ; and once due to the resignation of Vice President John C. Calhoun to become a senator.

* March 18 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1850 )

* March 31 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1782 )

Unlike John C. Calhoun, who resigned to take a seat in the Senate, Agnew resigned and then pleaded no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme wherein he was accused of accepting more than $ 100, 000 in bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

( The re-election of John C. Calhoun in 1828 was the other instance.

File: JCCalhoun-1822. jpg | Secretary of War John C. Calhoun of South Carolina

Durkin and Calhoun came running from the post.

Calhoun shouted.

The truth in their conflicting concepts was expounded by statesmen of the calibre of Webster and Calhoun, and defended in the end by leaders of the nobility of Lincoln and Lee.

Calhoun dealt with this question in his `` Disquisition On Government ''.

To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

Mrs. Calhoun has been society editor here for twenty-five years.

`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.

Tracking down Mrs. Calhoun was like trying to catch up with Paul Revere between Lexington and Concord.

Since Mrs. Calhoun remembered only that the marriage had been in the spring, he started to plod through several months.

It told him little more than Mrs. Calhoun had remembered, stating that it had been a small, modest wedding compared to some of the others.

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.

* Calhoun School-A progressive preK-12 school in Manhattan, New York.

* 1792 – Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States ( d. 1866 )

The Senate accepted Monroe's request and asked Calhoun to draft a bill, which was killed in the House of Representatives by the Georgia delegation.