Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson March 4, 1825 until December 28, 1832
CALHOUN, John Caldwell,(cousin
of John Ewing Colhoun and Joseph Calhoun), a Representative and a Senator from
South Carolina and a Vice President of the United States; born near Calhoun
Mills, Abbeville District (now Mount Carmel, McCormick County), S.C., March 18,
1782; attended the common schools and private academies; was graduated from Yale
College in 1804; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and commenced
practice in Abbeville, S.C.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member,
State house of representatives 1808-1809; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth
and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to
November 3, 1817, when he resigned; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President
James Monroe 1817-1825; elected vice president of the United States in 1824 with
President John Quincy Adams; reelected in 1828 with President Andrew Jackson and
served from March 4, 1825, to December 28, 1832, when he resigned, having been
elected to the United States Senate on December 12, 1832, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Robert Y. Hayne; reelected in 1834 and 1840 and
served from December 29, 1832, until his resignation, effective March 3, 1843;
Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President John Tyler; 1844-1845; again
elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Daniel E. Huger; reelected in 1846 and served from November 26,
1845, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1850; chairman, Committee
on Finance (Twenty-ninth Congress); interment in St. Philip’s Churchyard,
Charleston, S.C.- -Biographical
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