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Article: In the footsteps of an Ulster pioneer; In the first article of an occasional series on Ulster-Scots luminaries who pioneered the American frontier in the 18th/early 19th century, BILLY KENNEDY retraces the footsteps of United States Vice-President John C Calhoun, whose father emigrated from Londonderry.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1997
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John Caldwell Calhoun, one of the most influential statesmen and politicians in the American south during the first half of the 19th century, was a second generation Ulsterman who hauled himself up by his bootlaces.
This son of a Scots-Irish merchant and trader, Patrick Calhoun rose to become American Vice-President to John Quincy Adams (1825-29) and Andrew Jackson (1829-32), yet remarkably he was self-taught until the age of 18 in the humble log-cabin settlements of the South Carolina back-country around Abbeville.
Patrick Calhoun had emigrated with his ...