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'''John Caldwell Calhoun''' (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who was the seventh Vice President of the [[United States]] under [[John Quincy Adams]] and [[Andrew Jackson]].  He previously served as [[James Monroe]]'s Secretary of War.  He resigned from office to fill a [[South Carolina]] [[Senate]] seat.  He was the first Vice President to resign from office. He is best known for his intense and original defense of [[slavery]] as a positive good and for pointing [[the South]] toward secession from the Union.  He was the chief spokesman for the white South, portraying it as a minority that was threatened by the North. His last words were "The South, the poor south."<ref>[[Fandex]], Workman Publishing.</ref> Calhoun would become a major influence on Southern conservatives.<ref>https://www.americanheritage.com/giants-american-conservatism#</ref>

'''John Caldwell Calhoun''' (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who was the seventh Vice President of the [[United States]] under [[John Quincy Adams]] and [[Andrew Jackson]].  He previously served as [[James Monroe]]'s Secretary of War.  He resigned from office to fill a [[South Carolina]] [[Senate]] seat.  He was the first Vice President to resign from office. He is best known for his intense and original defense of [[slavery]] as a positive good and for pointing [[the South]] toward secession from the Union.  He was the chief spokesman for the white South, portraying it as a minority that was threatened by the North. His last words were "The South, the poor south."<ref>[[Fandex]], Workman Publishing.</ref> Calhoun would become a major influence on Southern conservatives.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rossiter|first=Clinton|date=October 1955|title=The Giants of American Conservatism|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/giants-american-conservatism|access-date=December 29, 2021|website=American Heritage|publisher=American Heritage Publishing Co.|quote=Southern conservatism in the Nineteenth Century found its most able spokesman in John C. Calhoun. There are those who deny that Calhoun was a conservative, some insisting that he was committed more deeply than he realized to Jeffersonian democracy, others that he was "the Marx of the master class," still others that he was little better than a fabulous reactionary. Actually, these people are saying only that he was an heir of the constitutional tradition, or that he was more realistic than most Americans about the facts of class warfare, or that he sought to prevent the agrarian South from going the way of the industrial North. None of these charges removes him unequivocally from the conservative ranks.|language=en-US|archive-date=December 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230005311/https://www.americanheritage.com/giants-american-conservatism|url-status=live}}</ref>  

Calhoun before 1824 was a leading nationalist, calling for a strong national government. He reversed directed 180 degrees and became the chief spokesman for letting the states do what they wanted without federal interference ("states rights") along with a weak national government.  

Calhoun before 1824 was a leading nationalist, calling for a strong national government. He reversed directed 180 degrees and became the chief spokesman for letting the states do what they wanted without federal interference ("states rights") along with a weak national government.