![]() ![]() From Nationalist to States' Rights DefenderĪfter the Treaty of Ghent in 1815, Calhoun played an important role in the ambitious nation-building efforts led by his fellow congressman Henry Clay. With his 1811 marriage to Floride Bonneau Colhoun, a cousin of his father and a member of one of South Carolina’s most prominent families, Calhoun joined the state's elite planter class. He won election to the U.S House of Representatives two years later and took his place among a group of congressmen known as “War Hawks,” who denounced British aggression against American ships and supported measures that would lead to the War of 1812. In 1808, not long after taking the bar examination, Calhoun was elected to the South Carolina legislature from his new district. ![]() He studied briefly at Litchfield Law School in Connecticut before returning to South Carolina, where he settled in Abbeville. Calhoun eventually attended Yale University in Connecticut, graduating in 1804. Patrick died when John was 13, and his three older brothers helped pay for his education. His father, Patrick Calhoun, fought in the Revolutionary War and was elected to the South Carolina legislature after it ended. John Caldwell Calhoun was born into a large Scots-Irish family on a plantation in rural South Carolina on March 18, 1782. ![]()
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