John C. Calhoun: Civil Rights Activist

John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on March 18th, 1782 and he supported his family whenever his father was ill when he was still a child. In 1807, John became a lawyer and was soon elected to congress in 1810 where he was openly a “war hawk” or someone who wanted to go to war with Great Britain for independence, and in 1812 he got his wish when the war of 1812 began. During the war, he raised troops so that he could support congress which made him a nationalist and he fought for a stronger national government. Calhoun resided in Clemson, North Carolina in his home which is called Fort Hill which is his death place and only about fifty miles away from his birthplace. He held many different offices and the fell in the order
In 1812, Hayne was admitted to the bar and he was a Captain in the Third South Carolina Regiment, and he later served as the Quartermaster General of the state militia during the war of 1812. Robert Hayne resided in his home he built in Asheville, NC which is where he died on September 24, 1839. Hayne became the 16th speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives from November to December in the year of 1818, he only stayed for one month because he became the 5th Attorney General of South Carolina and he stayed from 1818 to 1822, he then became the United States Senator from South Carolina from 1823 to 1832, during the same time he became Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs from 1825 to 1832, then from 1832 to 1834 Hayne became the 54th Governor of South Carolina, after a few years he became the 32nd intendant of Charleston, South Carolina from 1836 to 1837, and he died only a couple of years later to an abrupt fever at the age of 47. Robert Hayne supported the idea of State’s Rights and he had a very heated debate with Daniel Webster in 1830 about it, and in the debate Hayne had a very brilliant exposition of the State’s Rights interpretation which is where Daniel Webster’s challenge came into play. Robert Hayne did do many things and
Daniel Webster was a member of the Rogers’ Rangers in the Seven Years’ War, he served in the War of Independence, he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature for several years, and was a justice of the court of common pleas for his