John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun was a Senator and Representative from South Carolina who also served as Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun practiced law fairly briefly before being elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1808. He then moved on to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democratic Republican in 1811. John Calhoun established himself as a war hawk during the War of 1812 and President James Monroe appointed him Secretary of War. He served as Secretary of War from 1817 to 1825. John Calhoun was selected by John Quincy Adams as his Vice President. Calhoun also served as Vice President for Andrew Jackson, but the two of them began to have a falling out after disagreeing on many issues and having personal problems from the Peggy Eaton affair. These problems persuaded Jackson to replace John Calhoun with Martin Van Buren as his Vice President. Calhoun was the first Vice President to resign in 1832. He returned to the United States Senate, where he served until his death with just one year as Secretary of State in 1844.
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