John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was the leading political theorist of the antebellum South — vice president, senator and architect of nullification and the "positive good" defence of slavery. He gave the Deep South’s planter culture its constitutional doctrine of states’ rights.

• Lived: 1782 CE – 1850 CE
• Nationality: american
• Roles: statesman, senator, vice_president