Joseph Calhoun

Joseph Calhoun (born October 22, 1750 in Staunton , Colony of Virginia , † April 14, 1817 in Mount Carmel , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1807 and 1811 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Calhoun was a cousin of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), who was Vice President of the United States and US Senator and Congressman for South Carolina from 1825 to 1832 . Another cousin was John E. Colhoun (1749-1802), who also sat in the US Senate from 1801 to 1802. In 1756, Joseph Calhoun moved to South Carolina with his father. There they settled near Abbeville . As a youth, Calhoun received limited schooling and then went into farming.

Politically, Calhoun became a member of the Democratic Republican Party . He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1804 and 1805 . In the meantime he became a colonel in the state militia. After the death of Congressman Levi Casey , he was elected in the sixth constituency of South Carolina as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took up his new mandate on June 2, 1807. After re-election in 1808, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1811 .

In 1810, Calhoun declined to run again. His cousin John, whose political rise began at that time, was elected to succeed him. After leaving the House of Representatives, Joseph Calhoun withdrew from politics. He worked in agriculture again, got into the milling business and died in April 1817.

Web links

• Joseph Calhoun in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph Calhoun in the database of Find a Grave (English)