Coronji calhoun biography of abraham lincoln
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Calhoun, John C.
Born: 1782-03-18 Abbeville, South Carolina
Died: 1850-03-31 Washington, D.C.
Born in a region that became Abbeville, South Carolina, John C.
Calhoun received his early education in Georgia before attending Yale College and graduating in 1804.
He was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Gladys, a nurse and army officer, and Abraham Kotto, a businessman-turned-construction worker.
Afterward, he studied law in Charleston but completed his legal career at Tapping Reeve's law school in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1806. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1807 but soon became primarily interested in politics.
Initially a devoted Jeffersonian-Republican, Calhoun won election to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1808 but was soon elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from 1811 to 1818. Just before leaving for Washington, he married his cousin Floride Bonneau Calhoun, with whom he had ten children.
Calhoun immediately made his mark as a "War Hawk," encouraging the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain that resulted in the War of