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 ).

It then flows out of Jackson County and into Calhoun County before it goes through the town of Albion where the North Branch connects with the South Branch and they form to be one river.

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

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Clay as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Webster as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators with Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

Calhoun asserted that Southern whites, outnumbered in the United States by voters of the more densely-populated Northern states were one such minority deserving special protection in the legislature.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Calhoun as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

The mechanisms for his system are convincing if one shares Calhoun ’ s conviction that a functioning concurrent majority never leads to stalemate in the legislature ; rather, talented statesmen, practiced in the arts of conciliation and compromise would pursue “ the common good ”, however explosive the issue.

Calhoun ’ s two key concepts – the maintenance of the concurrent majority by high-minded statesmen on the one hand ; and the inevitable rise of demagogues who undermine consensus on the other – are never reconciled or resolved in the Disquisition.

Calhoun was honored by Minneapolis, naming one of its Chain of Lakes, Lake Calhoun, after him.

Calhoun was also honored by his alma mater, Yale University, which named one of its undergraduate residence halls " Calhoun College ".

In 1957, United States Senators honored Calhoun as one of the " five greatest senators of all time.

Residential gardens such as this one at the Calhoun Mansion abound in Charleston.

Calhoun County Park on West Virginia Route 16 includes hiking and bicycle trails, and is home to Heritage Village, historic buildings moved to the location then renovated to period history and includes a one room school house, and an old store.

Calhoun County is home to one of the last 500 drive-in theaters in the nation, Mt.

Calhoun also has one of the largest genealogy collections in the state, housed at Calhoun County Library.

The Calhoun County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile ( 1. 2 mi, 1. 9 km ) southwest of the central business district of Pittsboro, Mississippi.

Calhoun County was established on October 19, 1829 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under Andrew Jackson, making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties.

The largest employer in Altha, and in fact one of the largest in Calhoun County, is Oglesby Plants International.

The Calhoun County School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, that consists of one elementary school and a middle-high school.

The community of Fairview, now Calhoun, is one of the oldest communities in Richland County.