John C. Calhoun was a zealous defender of slavery. His name has lately been stripped from a residential college at Yale (his alma mater) and from a lake in Minnesota named in his honor when he was ...

McConnell draws on a playbook stretching back to John C. Calhoun, who as vice president in 1841 forged the filibuster into a conscious instrument to block majoritarian democracy as part of his ...

So John C. Calhoun led the fight for states' rights at a time which was very tragic in American politics. Senator Strom Thurmond expressed that theory so well by saying, ...

On March 9, 1836, Sen. John C. Calhoun rose, not for the first time, to sing the praises of human bondage. Two months earlier, an Ohio senator had presented a pair of petitions sent by citizens of ...

John C. Calhoun, who was secretary of state, secretary of war, a U.S. senator from South Carolina and twice vice president of the United States, was a revered statesman of the 19th century.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Four years after the John C. Calhoun statue was taken down in downtown Charleston, its fate is still in limbo. In June 2020, Charleston City Council unanimously vote… ...

CALHOUN, JOHN M., 64 of Clearwater, Fla. died Friday, July 5, 2002 at Mease Hospital, Dunedin. He was born in Canton, Ohio and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from East High School (Columbus… ...

Handicapped by a poor turnout and the absence of its sponsor, the long awaited Nashville Convention convened under a cloud on ...

JOHN C. CALHOUN A SECESSIONIST. Share full article. July 23, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from July 23, 1861, Page 3 Buy Reprints.