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Calhoun, John Caldwell

Calhoun, John Caldwell (kăl"hOOn') [key], 1782–1850, American statesman and political philosopher, b. near Abbeville, S.C., grad. Yale, 1804. He was an intellectual giant of political life in his day.

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