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John C. Calhoun: Vice President
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In January 1811 Calhoun married his first cousin once removed, Floride Bonneau Colhoun, whose branch of the family spelled the surname differently than did his. The couple had 10 children over an 18-year period, although three died in infancy. During her husband's second term as vice president, Floride Calhoun was a central figure in the Petticoat Affair.
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Volume XXII documents the period from July 1845 through March 1846 and covers John C. Calhoun's stormy relations with the Polk administration. Calhoun's papers from these nine months shed light on tariff and free trade movements on both sides of the Atlantic, U.S. relations with Mexico, and the debate over federal funding of internal improvements. They ... cover Calhoun's longest, most important, and last public journey—one which took him to Mobile, Montgomery, New Orleans, Natchez, Vicksburg, and finally to Memphis where he served as president of a widely attended Southwestern Convention. The volume closes exactly four years from the end of Calhoun's life.
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In 1824, Calhoun made the decision to run for president - ... not particularly wanting to run the risk of losing, he pulled out, and somehow managed to end up running as vice-presidential candidate to both of the main candidates. One can only imagine how exactly he managed this, but it goes without saying that it was probably done on the full moon. He won by a landslide, unsurprisingly, since the choices on the ballot paper were presumably "Calhoun", "Calhoun", and "some guy no one's ever heard of".
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Calhoun resigned as vice president, planning on becoming a senator in South Carolina to stop its run toward secession while solving the problems inflaming his fellow Carolinians. Before federal forces arrived at Charleston, Calhoun and Henry Clay agreed upon a compromise tariff that would lower rates over 10 years.
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It has been said that Calhoun labored to destroy the Union, that he might be the chief of a southern confederacy because he could not be president of the Union. The writer remembers an interview that he witnessed between Calhoun and a friend within a month of his death, when the hopes and strife's of his ambition were soon, as he knew, to be laid in the grave. The friend asked him if nothing could be done to save the Union.
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Jackson threatened military force to collect the duties in South Carolina, and in 1832 Calhoun in an unprecedented action resigned from the vice presidency and was elected by South Carolina to the Senate to defend its cause. Henry Clay brought forth a compromise, which Calhoun supported, to lower the tariff gradually over a decade; the crisis subsided for a time.
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