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John Caldwell Calhoun – (1782 – 1850) – Statesman
John Caldwell Calhoun was was the 7th Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina
during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocate of slavery, states' rights, limited government, and nullification.
His rhetorical defense of slavery was partially responsible for escalating Southern threats of secession in the face of mounting
abolitionist sentiment in the North. He was part of the "Great Triumvirate", or the "Immortal Trio",
along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.
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Calhoun was a reform-minded executive, who attempted to institute centralization and efficiency in the Indian department,
but Congress either failed to respond to his reforms or rejected them. Calhoun's frustration with congressional inaction,
political rivalries, and ideological differences that dominated the late early republic spurred him to unilaterally create
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Calhoun's nationalism also manifested itself in his advice to Monroe to sign off on the Missouri Compromise, which most
other Southern politicians saw as a distinctly bad deal; Calhoun believed that continued agitation of the slavery issue
threatened the Union, so the Missouri dispute had to be concluded
Historical / Biographical information courtesy of Wikipedia.
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