Calhoun
Calhoun is a surname of Irish origin, most associated in American history with John C.
Calhoun, the South Carolina statesman and seventh vice president who became the leading antebellum defender of slavery and states' rights.
The name appears across the American South in counties, cities, and streets—often markers of this political legacy.
Upper chamber member
- vice presidentSecond-ranking executive officer
- South CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coastal state
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- slaveryOwnership of people
tariffs · nullification · states' rights · secession · Democrat · Whig · congressional · legislation
Established body of teachings
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- tariffsTaxes on imports
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
- interpositionPlacing something between others
sovereignty · antebellum · constitutionality · crisis · ordinance · protest · resistance · federalism
Causing sharp disagreement
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- slaveryOwnership of people
- proslaveryFavoring legalized human ownership
- contentiousInclined toward disagreement
debate · polemic · inflammatory · discord · opposition · defender · apologist · legacy
senator
Upper chamber member
- vice presidentSecond-ranking executive officer
- South CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coastal state
- antebellumBefore a war's start
slavery · tariffs · nullification · states' rights · secession · Democrat · Whig · congressional · legislation · compromise
doctrine
Established body of teachings
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- tariffsTaxes on imports
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
interposition · sovereignty · antebellum · constitutionality · crisis · ordinance · protest · resistance · federalism · autonomy
divisive
Causing sharp disagreement
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- slaveryOwnership of people
- proslaveryFavoring legalized human ownership
contentious · debate · polemic · inflammatory · discord · opposition · defender · apologist · legacy · contested
family
Related people together
lineage · Scottish · Irish · clan · patronymic · descendants · legacy · namesake
renamed
Given a new designation
- oratorypublic speaking, speeches, oration, orations, addresses
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Fugitive Slave Act
- Georgia PlacesAtlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon, Columbus
- Michigan CountiesWayne, Oakland, Kent, Genesee, Kalamazoo
- Illinois TownsCairo, Cuba, Vienna, Thebes, Hardin
- Northwest GeorgiaDalton, Cartersville, Rome, Marietta, Kennesaw
CalhounFrederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman · abolitionist · Abraham Lincoln · unionist · John Quincy Adams
CalhounDaniel Webster
Statesman and constitutional lawyer
Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · Abraham Lincoln · Alexander Hamilton · John Marshall