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John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850)
Official profile from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000044
John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures - 1850
Text of Calhoun's famous speech opposing Henry Clay's set of resolutions which came to be known as the Compromise of 1850.
www.nationalcenter.org/CalhounClayCompromise.html
American Memory: Compromise of 1850
Online exhibit of original speeches by John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster opposing and supporting the Compromise of 1850. From the Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm043.html
Biography of John Caldwell Calhoun
Provides brief overview of his political career.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/calhoun/jcc.htm
Slavery a Positive Good
Text of Calhoun's February 6, 1837, speech in the U.S. Senate.
douglass.speech.nwu.edu/calh_a59.htm
John C. Calhoun: Political Writings
Includes brief biography and the full text of his "Disquisition on Government."
www.constitution.org/jcc/jcc.htm
John C. Calhoun's Speech to the United States Senate against the Compromise of 1850
Provides background and the images of the original manuscript of his speech.
rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/009))
Encyclopedia Americana: John C. Calhoun
Biographical profile of the South Carolinian who represented his state as a congressman and senator and who served as vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0071230-00
John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Capitol
Provides extensive biography of Calhoun as well as an examination of his political theories and his influence on his contemporaries and later events.
xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/calhoun/jcchome.html

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