USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -28, 1832. On this day in 1832, Vice President John C. Calhoun, citing policy differences with President Andrew Jackson, resigned 16 days after having been elected to fill a vacant South Carolina Senate seat.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1832, with only a few months remaining in his second term, Calhoun resigned as vice president and entered the Senate. He sought the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency in 1844 but lost to surprise nominee James K. Polk, who won the general election.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was an American politician who was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second vice president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832.

Detailed explanation-4: -Image courtesy of the Library of Congress John C. Calhoun of South Carolina served as Representative, Senator, and Vice President. Calhoun resigned his position as Vice President to return to the Senate in 1832.

Detailed explanation-5: -A staunch defender of the institution of slavery, and a slave-owner himself, Calhoun was the Senate’s most prominent states’ rights advocate, and his doctrine of nullification professed that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional.