JOHN E. COLHOUN

'John Ewing Colhoun' (1750 – October 26, 1802) was a United States senator and lawyer from South Carolina.

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Early life

Family

Senator

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Early life

Colhoun was born in Staunton, Virginia, he attended the common schools and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1778 to 1800. He studied to be a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1783, commencing practice in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a farmer and was elected a member of the privy council and was also a commissioner of confiscated estates in 1785.

Family

The Colhoun family were originally from Dumbartonshire in Scotland. Colhoun married Floride Bonneau. They had three children, John Ewing Colhoun, Jr. , who became a planter, James Edward Colhoun (1798-1889 later changed last name to Calhoun), who would become an officer in the U.S. Navy in the 1820s and, too, was a planter, and Floride Bonneau Colhoun (1792-1866) who married her father's first cousin John Caldwell Calhoun making him also be Colhoun's son-in-law. She became Second Lady of the United States in 1825. Colhoun was also a first cousin of Joseph Calhoun, and the brother-in-law of Andrew Pickens.

Senator

In 1801, Colhoun was a member of the South Carolina Senate and was a member of the committee which was instructed to report a modification of the judiciary system of the United States. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 7th United States Congress as a senator, serving from March 4, 1801 until his death on October 26, 1802 in Pendleton, South Carolina. He was interned in the family cemetery in the Old Pendleton District (now Pickens County, South Carolina).

External links

★ John Ewing Colhoun papers