September 21, 2007

Calhoun County was founded in 1852, approximately two years after the county’s namesake, John C. Calhoun, one of America’s leading eighteenth-century politicians, had died. The South Carolina native and Yale graduate served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, was both secretary of war and state, and was twice elected vice president. He was a leading supporter of the doctrine of states’ rights and was still a very popular Southern figure at the time Calhoun County was formed.