Calhoun

[kăl-hoon´], John Caldwell. S. C., 1782-1850. A South Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under Monroe, and again under Tyler, vice-president under John Quincy Adams, and United States senator from 1845 till his death. He was one of the ablest of political leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of the first rank. His literary style is both vigourous and concise, and displays at times a remarkable intensity of expre ion. A Disquisition on Government; The Constitution and Government of the United States. See Works in 6 volumes; Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Jenkins; Von Holst. Ap.