Floride Calhoun

John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on March 18, 1782. When he was 17 he dropped out of high school and worked on the family farm to help his parents. In 1804 he finished his studies and obtained a degree from Yale University. After he got his degree, he started studying law at Tapping Reeve Law School and was admitted into the South Carolina bar in1807, later abandoning his practice, when he got married to his cousin, Floride Calhoun, to become a planter- statesman. In 1808, Calhoun

between Secretary of State Martin Van Buren and Vice President John C. Calhoun. Van Buren was extremely against the Calhouns and their tormenting of the Eatons and constantly had arguments with Calhoun. They couldn’t stand to work with each other anymore, and to calm some of the controversy, Martin Van Buren volunteered to resign from the cabinet, allowing the President to ask for the resignation of other members such as Calhoun. The whole cabinet dispersed, was reorganized, and thankfully John Eaton’s

still the senator; many believed this was the reason her husband committed suicide. Due to this affair, Floride Calhoun led a movement to stop Eaton from becoming secretary of state. This caused a stigma against the Eatons as many of the Washington leaders did not associate with them at the time. Andrew Jackson was angry with the members of his cabinet especially his vice president John Calhoun because of the way they treated the Eatons because this where the same slanderous attacks his wife received