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Tompkins in 1821, John C. Calhoun in 1829 and Thomas Riley Marshall in 1917. *Only exception was Governor George Earle of Pennsylvania who, as became his Presidential ambitions for 1940. followed the great New Dealer's example by taking his drenching in an open car so that throngs, wet to the skin, could...
...hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem disposed to change my mind, and to go, temporarily, to the other place to see the devil when he burns those strange uniforms off of some people who think they are Democrats but don't believe in the reserved rights...
Married. Lois Walters, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Augustus Walters; and Robert Coker, stepson of the daughter of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; in Washington...
...uproar in Washington society unrivaled until the appearance of Mrs. Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton's mistress. The President defended Peggy, reorganized his Cabinet largely on her account. After John Eaton died in 1856, Peggy married an Italian dancing master. She soon divorced him, returned...
...more imposing effect" if candidates were nominated by two-thirds of the delegates instead of by a mere majority, he started something over which Democrats have been wrangling for 104 years. Romulus Saunders was simply doing a job for Boss Andrew Jackson, who thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired...