John Calhoun Character Traits

John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun had been born in South Carolina on March 18, 1782. he went to school at Yale, and during the economic recession in 1808 to 1810, he realized that the British Policies were destroying the economy. He had served in the South Carolina legislature and then was elected to serve on the United States House of Representatives and served three terms. In the year 1812, he and Henry Clay, who were two famous "warhawks", had preferred war to the "putrescent pool of ignominious peace", and convinced the House of Representatives to declare the war on Great Britain. Calhoun was the secretary of war while James Monroe was president from the year 1817 to the year 1825 and ran for the presidency in the 1824 election and Calhoun

His was born about three weeks after his father, Andrew. His mothers name was Elizabeth Jackson. He had two older brothers, Hugh Jackson and Robert Jackson. Two years before Andrew Jackson had been born, his family had emigrated from Northern Ireland to a Waxhaw settlement where he grew up surrounded by lots of family. Andrew and his brothers enlisted to fight the British in the Revolutionary War when it started in the year 1778. Both of his other brothers lost their lives in the war. Andrew and his brother, Robert, had been taken into captivity two years after Hugh died. Andrew had been struck by a sword that left a scar on his face and hand for not polishing an officer’s shoes while being held captive. Andrew and Robert both contracted smallpox and Robert eventually died from the disease. HIs mother contracted cholera and died when he was 14 years old. After staying with extended family for a short time, he went on to Charleston to complete his education. While doing that he was known for his playfulness, daring, and hot-headed temper. When Jackson was 17 he decided to become a lawyer and received his license in 1787. He was a public prosecutor in Nashville in the year 1788. He eventually married Rachel Donelson Robards in 1794. They never had children of their own but they did take in several children that needed them. Jackson had a political career including being Attorney General district in Nashville, he served as a delegate on the Tennessee Constitutional Convention, and then became Tennessee’s first member of the United States House of Representatives from 1796 to 1797, and was then chosen to be Tennessee’s United States Senator from 1797 to 1798. He was also in the Military during the War of 1812. He then Became the United States seventh president in 1828 to 1837. His wife died before he was able to rake