Death
Calhoun died at a Old Brick Capitol boarding house in Washington, D.C. in March 1850 of tuberculosis at the age of sixty-eight. He was interred at the St. Philip's Churchyard in Charleston, South Carolina in the section for non-members.
Calhoun's fierce defense of states' rights and support for the Slave Power had influence beyond his death. Southern supporters drew from his thought in the growing divide between Northern and Southern states on this issue. They wielded the threat of Southern secession to back slave state demands.
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