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.

Tyler appointed John C. Calhoun Secretary of State as Upshur's replacement, and Calhoun completed the treaty ; it was presented to the Senate on April 22.

Calhoun proposed the theory of a concurrent majority through the doctrine of nullification —- " the right of a State to interpose, in the last resort, in order to arrest an unconstitutional act of the General Government, within its limits.

After a one-year service as Secretary of State ( April 1, 1844 – March 10, 1845 ), Calhoun returned to the Senate in 1845.

Tyler was a former Democrat and broke bitterly with the Whigs, and named Calhoun Secretary of State in 1844.

On January 30, 1932, the State Highway Department opened the newly-constructed Calhoun Street Extension to traffic.

The hospital was featured in a 1989 movie, Chattahoochee, starring Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper, in which a war hero, Chris Calhoun, is involuntarily committed to Florida State Hospital where he sees doctors at the hospital humiliating patients and experiences filth and abuse.

and in the 96th State Assembly District is represented by Nancy Calhoun ( R ).

* John C. Calhoun, 7th American Vice President under Andrew Jackson, notable States Rights Activist, and later the 16th Secretary of State of the United States

The Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area is located nearby.

Calhoun Falls State Park, a South Carolina state park, is within ; and Bobby Brown State Park, a Georgia state park, is within.

Calhoun is centered around the junction of U. S. Route 11, which connects the town to Athens to the north and Charleston and Cleveland to the south, and State Route 163 ( Bowater Road ), which connects Calhoun to U. S. Route 411 in Delano to the east and Interstate 75 and Meigs County to the west.

Aboard the flight were: Tallahassee Mayor Joe Cordell, State Comptroller Ray Green, Tallahassee City Commissioners Davis Atkinson, George Taff, Hugh Williams, Tallahassee City Manager Arvah Hopkins, Tallahassee City Clerk-Auditor George White, Airport Manager Flagg Chittenden, and Ernest Menendez, Frank Deller, James Calhoun, John Ward and Jeff Lewis, all of the Tallahassee / Leon County Chamber of Commerce.

State leaders such as Calhoun, Hayne, Smith, and William Drayton were all able to remain publicly non-committal or opposed to nullification for the next couple of years.

Official 109th Congressional photoA fifth generation resident of Calhoun County in East Alabama, Rogers graduated from Saks High School and earned both his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Masters of Public Administration at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama.

* Calhoun State Prison

Poinsett ’ s political views were aligned with such nationalists as Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Secretary of War John C. Calhoun.

Calhoun, currently, was the Secretary of State under the Taylor Administration.

Calhoun Mine is located about 3 miles ( 5 km ) south of Dahlonega off State Route 60 and on the eastern side of the Chestatee River.

John C. Calhoun indicated that these terms were interchangeable, stating: " This right of interposition, thus solemnly asserted by the State of Virginia, be it called what it may — State-right, veto, nullification, or by any other name — I conceive to be the fundamental principle of our system.

The couple, both of whom lost parents to heart disease, are known for their philanthropy, including the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn and the annual Jim Calhoun Holiday Food Drive which has raised nearly $ 1 million supporting food assistance agencies that serve to help families in need throughout the State of Connecticut.

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

West is the city of Albion and beyond that the cities of Marshall and Battle Creek, all in Calhoun County.

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

John Quincy Adams concluded in 1821 that: " Calhoun is a man of fair and candid mind, of honorable principles, of clear and quick understanding, of cool self-possession, of enlarged philosophical views, and of ardent patriotism.

" Historian Charles Wiltse agrees, noting, " Though he is known today primarily for his sectionalism, Calhoun was the last of the great political leaders of his time to take a sectional position — later than Daniel Webster, later than Henry Clay, later than Adams himself.

An observer commented that Calhoun was " the most elegant speaker that sits in the House ... His gestures are easy and graceful, his manner forcible, and language elegant ; but above all, he confines himself closely to the subject, which he always understands, and enlightens everyone within hearing ; having said all that a statesman should say, he is done.

Cheek argues that Calhoun is best understood as a representative of the South Atlantic tradition of agrarian republicanism.

Calhoun emphasizes the primacy of the idea of subsidiarity: popular rule is best expressed in local communities that are nearly autonomous while serving as units of a larger society.

Calhoun explicitly rejected the founding principles of equality in the Declaration of Independence, denying that humanity is born free and equal in shared human nature and basic needs.

Calhoun considered the concurrent majority essential to provide structural restraints to counter his belief that “ a vast majority of mankind is entirely biased by motives of self-interest and that by this interest must be governed .” This innate selfishness, which he viewed as axiomatic, would inevitably emerge when government revenue became available to political parties for distribution as patronage.

What Calhoun fails to explain, according to historian William W. Freehling, is how a compromise would be achieved in the aftermath of a minority veto, when the ubiquitous demagogues betray their constituencies and abandon the concurrent majority altogether.

is: John C. Calhoun

The School ’ s current Director is Professor Craig Calhoun.

For the last 20 miles ( 32 km ) of its course, the Illinois is separated from the Mississippi River by only about five miles, by a peninsula of land that makes up Calhoun County.

Calhoun County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.

As is universal in the Florida Panhandle, a majority of Calhoun County's residents remain much more attached to Southern culture and lifestyle habits than is common in the Central and Southern regions of the state influenced by large amounts of migration, and the area holds much more in common with states such as Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi than with much of Florida.

Calhoun County is a county in the U. S. state of Alabama.

Its name is in honor of John C. Calhoun, famous member of the United States Senate from South Carolina.

Calhoun County is the name of several counties in the United States of America, mostly named after Senator John C. Calhoun:

* Piedmont ( part-part of Piedmont is in Calhoun County )

* Glencoe ( part of Glencoe is in Calhoun County )

* Ohatchee ( part of Ohatchee is in Calhoun County )

* Oxford ( part of Oxford is in Calhoun County )