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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 5,700,316 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). John C. Calhoun is the 7,630th most popular politician (up from 7,658th in 2019), the 2,663rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,726th in 2019) and the 166th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John C. Calhoun ranks 7,630 out of 15,577Before him are John Connally, Yesün Temür, Gottfried van Swieten, Prospero Colonna, Smbat I of Armenia, and Mandane of Media. After him are 8th Dalai Lama, Ignazio Cassis, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Józef Beck, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, and Aeacides of Epirus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, John C. Calhoun ranks 18Before him are Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Vicente Guerrero, William Miller, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, and Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony. After him are Faustin Soulouque, Marcellin Marbot, Pierre Berthier, Robert Morrison, Princess Marie of Baden, and Eugène de Mazenod. Among people deceased in 1850, John C. Calhoun ranks 29Before him are William Sturgeon, Adam Oehlenschläger, Johann Gottfried Schadow, William Prout, Wilhelm Beer, and Gustav Schwab. After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Margaret Fuller, Lorenzo Bartolini, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, and Adalbert Gyrowetz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Calhoun ranks 2,663 out of 18,182Before him are Daniel Davis (1945), Baruch Goldstein (1956), David Farragut (1801), Keith Carradine (1949), John Connally (1917), and Edwin Sutherland (1883). After him are Annie Proulx (1935), Richard Beymer (1938), John W. Campbell (1910), Dan Flavin (1933), Joseph E. Johnston (1807), and Tito Puente (1923).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John C. Calhoun ranks 166Before him are Annie Edson Taylor (1838), Charles W. Fairbanks (1852), Gall (1840), Jerome Powell (1953), Lew Wallace (1827), and John Connally (1917). After him are Besse Cooper (1896), Mangas Coloradas (1792), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Ronald Lauder (1944), Mike Pompeo (1963), and Henry Wilson (1812).