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CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL (1782-1850), American statesman and
parliamentarian, was born, of Scottish-Irish descent, in Abbeville
District, South Carolina, on the 18th of March 1782. His father, Patrick
Calhoun, is said to have been born in Donegal, in North Ireland, but to
have left Ireland when a mere child. The family seems to have emigrated
first to Pennsylvania, whence they removed, after Braddock's defeat, to
Western Virginia. From Virginia they removed in 1756 to South Carolina
and settled on Long Cane Creek, in Granville (now Abbeville) county.
Patrick Calhoun attained some prominence in the colony, serving in the
colonial legislature, and afterwards in the state legislature, and
taking part in the War of Independence. In 1770 he had married Martha
Caldwell, the daughter of another Scottish-Irish settler.

The opportunities for obtaining a liberal education in the remote
districts of South Carolina at that time were scanty. Fortunately, young
Calhoun had the opportunity, although late, of studying under his
brother-in-law, the Rev. Moses Waddell (1770-1840), a Presbyterian
minister, who afterwards, from 1819 to 1829, was president of the
University of Georgia. In 1802 Calhoun entered the junior class in Yale
College, and graduated with distinction in 1804. He then studied first
at the famous law school in Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards in a law
office in Charleston, S.C., and in 1807 was admitted to the bar. He
began practice in his native Abbeville District, and soon took a leading
place in his profession. In 1808 and 1809 he was a member of the South
Carolina legislature, and from 1811 to 1817 was a member of the national
House of Representatives.

When he entered the latter body the strained relations between