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.

`` 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.

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.

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.

Adams said slavery contradicted the principles of republicanism, while Calhoun said that slavery was essential to American democracy, for it made all white men equal.

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.

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.

After the breach between Jackson and Calhoun, Van Buren was clearly the most prominent candidate for the vice-presidency.

The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

When the vote was taken, enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for " vengeance.

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.

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

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.

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.

This was the first national election for Martin Van Buren of New York, who was put on the ticket to succeed John C. Calhoun as vice-president and four years later would succeed Jackson as president.

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.

) George Zebrowski, in his afterword to the story, speculates that Heinlein was parodying Campbell in the character of Calhoun, who goes insane and actually believes the false religion created by the Americans.

As part of the " Great Triumvirate " or " Immortal Trio ," along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, he was instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.

Webster was considered the Northern member of a trio known as the " Great Triumvirate ", with his colleagues Henry Clay from the West ( Kentucky ) and John C. Calhoun from the South ( South Carolina ).

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

After the war, Calhoun and Clay sponsored a Bonus Bill for public works.

Jackson had invaded Florida during the First Seminole War without explicit public authorization from Calhoun or Monroe.

Calhoun believed that the spread of slavery into the back country of his own state improved public morals by ridding the countryside of the shiftless poor whites who had once held the region back.

Calhoun was consistently opposed to the war with Mexico from its very beginning, arguing that an enlarged military effort would only feed the alarming and growing lust of the public for empire regardless of its constitutional dangers, bloat executive powers and patronage, and saddle the republic with a soaring debt that would disrupt finances and encourage speculation.

Calhoun ’ s assumed that with the establishment of a concurrent majority, interest groups would influence their own representatives sufficiently to have a voice in public affairs ; the representatives would perform strictly as high-minded public servants.

Calhoun predicted that electioneering, political conspiracies and outright fraud would be employed to mislead and distract a gullible public ; inevitably, perfidious demagogues would come to rule the political scene.

Calhoun County is home to five public parks, The Upper West Fork Park in Chloe on West Virginia Route 16, which offers free rough camping, camping hook ups for $ 5 a night, and free bluegrass music on summer Saturdays.

There are also two public schools located northwest of the city proper that serve the unincorporated communities of Pleasant Valley and Williams and are run by Calhoun County Schools:

The public schools in Weaver are run by Calhoun County Schools.

There are three public schools in the Calhoun County School District: Bruce, Calhoun City, and Vardaman ; and one private school, Calhoun Academy.

Currently, there exist two public schools in Calhoun Falls: John C. Calhoun Elementary School and Calhoun Falls Charter School.

In November 1956, Brooks defeated, 68-32 percent, the Republican nominee Calhoun Allen, a longtime military reservist, who later turned Democratic and was elected as Shreveport's public utilities commissioner and as mayor.

Based on a conference on the occasion of the English translation, at which Habermas himself attended, Craig Calhoun ( 1992 ) edited Habermas and the Public Sphere – a thorough dissection of Habermas ’ bourgeois public sphere by scholars from various academic disciplines.

Jesse Crowell ( November 19, 1797 Bridgewater, Oneida County, New York – September 28, 1872 Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan ) was a pioneer settler in Michigan, who platted Albion, Michigan, in 1836, was its first postmaster, and played an important role in the public affairs and the development of Albion.

In 1832, as Vice President under Andrew Jackson, Calhoun went public with these ideas, during the Nullification Crisis.

In an effort to move these various disciplines " toward a more public social science ," Craig Calhoun, the President of the Social Science Research Council, has encouraged sociologists and other social scientists to " ask better social science questions about what encourages scientific innovation, what makes knowledge useful, and how to pursue both these agendas, with attention to both immediate needs and longterm capacities.

Calhoun has also entered the debate about public sociology, critically evaluating the project of public sociology while acknowledging its specific " promise ," and arguing that " how sociology matters in the public sphere is vital to the future of the field ".