2-365-452 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

John Caldwell Calhoun, American politician, 1850 (1955). Calhoun (1782-1850) served as Vice-President from 1825-1832, and then as a US Senator until 1850. His vociferous support for the institution of slavery aroused strong anti-Southern feeling in the northern states. From The Gallery of Illustrious Americans. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.