South Carolina Day
South Carolina Day is held on March 18. Our state celebrates John C. Calhoun’s birthday March 18 each year by observing South Carolina Day, a day required by law in which schools shall “conduct such exercises as will conduce to a more general knowledge and appreciation of the history, resources and possibilities of this State.” S.C. John Caldwell Calhoun [March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850] was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832. This event in the second decade of the month March is annual. 
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John Caldwell Calhoun was born into a large Scots-Irish family on a plantation in rural South Carolina on March 18, 1782. He was the fourth child of Patrick and Martha Caldwell Calhoun.
On December 19, 1828, John C. Calhoun anonymously penned an essay entitled “South Carolina Exposition and Protest,” asserting that states had the right to nullify acts of Congress that exceeded the powers expressly granted to the federal government in the Constitution. As a U.S. Senator, John C. Calhoun was an unabashed opponent of abolition and a staunch defender of slavery.
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