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John C. Calhoun

1782 - 1850

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John Caldwell Calhoun (; March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer and proponent of a strong federal government and protective tariffs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John C. Calhoun has received more than 6,167,850 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). John C. Calhoun is the 7,730th most popular politician (down from 7,609th in 2019), the 2,541st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,656th in 2019) and the 166th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John C. Calhoun ranks 7,730 out of 19,576. Before him are Eurydice I of Macedon, Jacob Stainer, Hanns Kerrl, Tommy Lapid, Estanislao Figueras, and Samia Suluhu Hassan. After him are Hubert Maga, Philip of France, False Dmitry III, Takelot III, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, and Nicholas Murray Butler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, John C. Calhoun ranks 16. Before him are Archduke John of Austria, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, William Miller, Vicente Guerrero, and Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov. After him are Marcellin Marbot, Eugène de Mazenod, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Faustin Soulouque, and Pierre Berthier. Among people deceased in 1850, John C. Calhoun ranks 27. Before him are Adam Oehlenschläger, William Sturgeon, Vincent Pallotti, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, William Prout, and Johann Gottfried Schadow. After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Margaret Fuller, and Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Calhoun ranks 2,541 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Eden (1931), Chris Pine (1980), Willy DeVille (1950), Tom Sizemore (1961), Xander Berkeley (1955), and Earl Boen (1945). After him are Barbara Bain (1931), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Sean Young (1959), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), and Richard Brautigan (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John C. Calhoun ranks 166. Before him are John Hancock (1737), Dan Quayle (1947), Jeb Bush (1953), Harry Dexter White (1892), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), and James Baker (1930). After him are Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Dianne Feinstein (1933), Robert Gates (1943), Kamehameha III (1814), Lew Wallace (1827), and Jay Rockefeller (1937).

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