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Clay introduced the negotiated tariff bill on February 12, and it was immediately referred to a select committee consisting of Clay as chairman, Felix Grundy of Tennessee, George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania, William Cabell Rives of Virginia, Webster, John M. Clayton of Delaware, and Calhoun.
Only Andrew Duggan's character, Cal Calhoun, immediately disappeared from the screen upon the show's cancellation, although viewers probably barely noticed, since the then-ubiquitous Duggan was constantly appearing on so many different television series in other roles.

Calhoun and became
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.
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.
When his father became ill, 17-year-old John Calhoun quit school to work on the family farm.
To restore his national stature, Calhoun cooperated with Jackson's successor Martin Van Buren, who became president in 1837.
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.
Calhoun also published the former National Democrat newspaper in what became Colfax, the seat of government of the new parish.
" The King, while there, became the first monarch of Canada to personally receive the credentials of an ambassador, that being Daniel Calhoun Roper as the representative of the United States.
Sammartino made major headlines when he became the first ( and only ) man to lift the Haystacks Calhoun in a match.
At 28 years old, Rogers became the youngest person and first Republican to join the Calhoun County Commission.
As well as remaining much in demand as a session bass player, Wimbish later became the bass player for Living Colour and has recorded solo material as well as forming the short-lived Jungle Funk ( later Head >> Fake ), a live drum and bass outfit also featuring Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun.
He lived in Brazoria, Texas where he became district clerk before representing Calhoun, Jackson, Matagorda, and Wharton counties in the House of Representatives of the Third and Fourth Legislatures from 1848 to 1853.
William Smith Calhoun owned a plantation in the area that later became Grant Parish.
McDuffie, like Calhoun, became an eloquent champion of state sovereignty ; but while Calhoun emphasized state action as the only means of redressing a grievance, McDuffie paid more attention to the grievance itself.
He commenced practice in Marshall and became prosecuting attorney of Calhoun County in 1842.
He was born in Virginia, studied medicine in Baltimore, Maryland ; moved to Howard County, Missouri, and settled near Glasgow, Missouri ; engaged in the practice of medicine ; studied theology ; was ordained to the ministry and became a Methodist minister in that locality ; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri ; presidential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1828 ; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-third Congress ( March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 ); resumed his ministerial duties and also the practice of medicine ; died near Rothville, Missouri, Chariton County, Missouri, in February 1863 ; interment in Hutcheson Cemetery, a family burial ground, near Rothville.
In 1933, with the institution of the new residential college system at Yale, the dormitory at the corner of College and Elm Streets became Calhoun College, named for John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, B.
In 1992, when the Calhoun Gordon Arts Council was incorporated, the Roland Hayes Committee became the Roland Hayes Music Guild and Museum in Calhoun, Georgia.
Despite his imposing presence, Haystacks Calhoun possessed a mild-mannered reputation as a charming country boy ; and he thus became a favorite of the fans, as word quickly spread of this colossus.
As national policy, driven by the North, became ever more hostile to the South, Calhoun argued more stridently for a requirement of concurrent majority by geographic region.
In 1977 he became editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun, producing volumes 10 through the completion of the edition with volume 28 in 2003.

Calhoun and leader
Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to the opposition of both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.
He was an orator and leader of the first class, able to stand his own with or against fellow senators Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun.
During the resulting Nullification Crisis in late 1832 and early 1833, as the Senate's president pro tempore ( the leader of the Senate in the absence of the Vice President ), White coordinated negotiations in the interim between the resignation of Vice President John C. Calhoun ( December 28, 1832 ) and the swearing in of Vice President Martin Van Buren ( March 4, 1833 ).
The tribe ’ s spiritual leader, Walker Calhoun, said in 1995 that “ gambling would be the Cherokee ’ s damnation .”
The leader Mento transformed the metal covering Calhoun into a permanent metallic shell.

Calhoun and War
Under President James Monroe, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun devised the first plans for Indian removal.
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.
Both proved outstanding, as Adams was a master diplomat and Calhoun completely reorganized the War Department to overcome the serious deficiencies that hobbled it during the war of 1812.
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.
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.
File: JCCalhoun-1822. jpg | Secretary of War John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
Calhoun died 11 years before the start of the American Civil War, but he was an inspiration to the secessionists of 1860 – 61.
The mismanagement of the Army during the war distressed Calhoun, and he resolved to strengthen the War Department so it would never fail again.
In 1817, President James Monroe appointed Calhoun Secretary of War, where he served until 1825.
In 1817, the deplorable state of the War Department led four men to turn down requests to fill the Secretary of War position before Calhoun finally accepted the task.
Calhoun was then serving as James Monroe's Secretary of War ( 1817 – 1823 ).
Jackson had invaded Florida during the First Seminole War without explicit public authorization from Calhoun or Monroe.
More upheaval came when his wife Floride Calhoun organized Cabinet wives against Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John Eaton.
Calhoun was shaped by his father, Patrick Calhoun, a prosperous upstate planter who supported Independence during the American Revolutionary War but opposed ratification of the federal Constitution.
During the Civil War, the Confederate government honored Calhoun on a one-cent postage stamp, which was printed in 1862 but was never officially released.
He had differences with John C. Calhoun, then Secretary of War, who chided him for appearing dressed as a Cherokee at a meeting.
President James Monroe seriously considered Johnson for the position of Secretary of War after Henry Clay declined the office, but the post ultimately went to John C. Calhoun.
Secretary of War John C. Calhoun then ordered Andrew Jackson to lead the invasion of Florida.
Prior to the American Civil War, the center of activity focused upon " Calhoun's Landing ," named for the cotton and sugar planter Meredith Calhoun, a native of South Carolina.
The site is now a part of the Calhoun County Park System and features a Civil War memorial alongside a Civil War and Native American museum.
Prior to the American Civil War, it was known as " Calhoun's Landing ," named for the cotton and sugar planter Meredith Calhoun, a native of South Carolina.

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