{"id":5166,"date":"2020-07-24T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/?page_id=5166"},"modified":"2020-07-24T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:33:55","slug":"john-c-calhoun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/?page_id=5166","title":{"rendered":"John C Calhoun"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5166\" class=\"elementor elementor-5166\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9fcd161 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9fcd161\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">7th Vice President of the United States<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1832ac elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d1832ac\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ef19a76\" data-id=\"ef19a76\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap 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class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8b2ab19\" data-id=\"8b2ab19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-298f565 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"298f565\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p>John Caldwell Calhoun was born in\u00a0<a title=\"Abbeville County, South Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbeville_County,_South_Carolina\">Abbeville District, South Carolina<\/a>\u00a0on March 18, 1782, the fourth child of\u00a0<a title=\"Patrick Calhoun (immigrant)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Calhoun_(immigrant)\">Patrick Calhoun<\/a>\u00a0and his wife Martha (Caldwell).He was an American statesman and political theorist from <a title=\"South Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Carolina\">South Carolina<\/a>\u00a0who served as the seventh\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Vice president of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vice_president_of_the_United_States\">vice president of the United States<\/a> from 1825 to 1832. Calhoun began his political career with election to the <a title=\"United States House of Representatives\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_of_Representatives\">House of Representatives<\/a>\u00a0in 1810. As a prominent leader of the\u00a0<a title=\"War hawk\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_hawk\">war hawk<\/a>\u00a0faction, Calhoun strongly supported the\u00a0<a title=\"War of 1812\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_of_1812\">War of 1812<\/a>\u00a0to defend American honor against\u00a0<a title=\"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland\">British<\/a>\u00a0infractions of American independence and neutrality during the\u00a0<a title=\"Napoleonic Wars\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napoleonic_Wars\">Napoleonic Wars<\/a>. He served as\u00a0<a title=\"United States Secretary of War\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Secretary_of_War\">Secretary of War<\/a>\u00a0under President\u00a0<a title=\"James Monroe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Monroe\">James Monroe<\/a>\u00a0and, in that position, reorganized and modernized the\u00a0<a title=\"United States Department of War\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Department_of_War\">War Department<\/a>. Calhoun was a candidate for the presidency in the\u00a0<a title=\"1824 United States presidential election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1824_United_States_presidential_election\">1824 election<\/a>. After failing to gain support, he agreed to be a candidate for vice president. The\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Electoral College (United States)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electoral_College_(United_States)\">Electoral College<\/a>\u00a0elected Calhoun for vice president by an overwhelming majority. He served under\u00a0<a title=\"John Quincy Adams\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Quincy_Adams\">John Quincy Adams<\/a>\u00a0and continued under\u00a0<a title=\"Andrew Jackson\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Jackson\">Andrew Jackson<\/a>, who defeated Adams in the\u00a0<a title=\"1828 United States presidential election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1828_United_States_presidential_election\">election of 1828<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7th Vice President of the United States March 18, 1782 \u2013 March 31, 1850 John Caldwell Calhoun was born in\u00a0Abbeville District, South Carolina\u00a0on March 18, 1782, the fourth child of\u00a0Patrick Calhoun\u00a0and his wife Martha (Caldwell).He was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina\u00a0who served as the seventh\u00a0vice president of the United States from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5166\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeenfamilytree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}