Editing John C. Calhoun (section)

==Personal life==
[[File: Floride Calhoun nee Colhoun.jpg|thumb|upright|Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun|alt=Oval of young woman seated, with pinkish white frilled head bonnet and dress top, black narrow waist dress, straight dark hair parted in the middle]]

In January 1811, Calhoun married [[Floride Calhoun|Floride Bonneau Colhoun]], a [[first cousin once removed]].<ref>Her branch of the family spelled the surname differently from his. See A.{{nbsp}}S. Salley, [https://archive.org/details/calhounfamilyofs00lcsall ''The Calhoun Family of South Carolina''], Columbia, SC: 1906. p. 19. The name appears in various records as "Colhoon", "Cohoon", "Calhoun", "Cahoun", "Cohoun", "Calhoon", and "Colhoun". ''Ibid.'', pp. 1–2, 5–6, 18–19. In Scotland, it is spelled "Colquhoun". Ellen{{nbsp}}R. Johnson, ''Colquhoun/Calhoun and Their Ancestral Homelands'' (Heritage Books, 1993), ''passim''.</ref> She was the daughter of wealthy United States Senator and lawyer [[John&nbsp;E. Colhoun]], a leader of Charleston high society.

The couple had ten children:

* Andrew Pickens (1811–1865)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=John C. Calhoun |url=https://www.clemson.edu/about/history/bios/john-c-calhoun.html |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=clemson.edu}}</ref>
* Floride Pure (1814–1815)<ref name="Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun">{{cite web |title=Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/calhoun-clemson/floridebcalhoun.html |access-date=March 17, 2016 |publisher=Clemson University |archive-date=March 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308081229/http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/calhoun-clemson/floridebcalhoun.html }}</ref>
* Jane (1816–1816)<ref name="Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun" />
* [[Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson|Anna Maria]] (1817–1875), who married [[Thomas Green Clemson]] who later founded [[Clemson University]] in South Carolina<ref>{{cite web |title=Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson |url=http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/calhoun-clemson/annaclemson.html |access-date=May 14, 2016 |publisher=Clemson University |archive-date=May 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516100534/http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/calhoun-clemson/annaclemson.html }}</ref>
* Elizabeth (1819–1820)<ref name="Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun" />
* Patrick (1821–1858)<ref name=":0" />
* John Caldwell Jr. (1823–1850)<ref name=":0" />
* Martha Cornelia (1824–1857)<ref name=":0" />
* James Edward (1826–1861)<ref name=":0" />
* William Lowndes (1829–1858)<ref name=":0" />

Calhoun was not openly religious and was generally not outspoken about his religious beliefs. He was raised as an [[orthodox Presbyterian]], but was attracted to Southern varieties of [[Unitarianism]] like those that attracted Jefferson. Southern Unitarianism was generally less organized than the variety popular in New England. After his marriage, Calhoun and his wife attended the Episcopal Church, of which she was a member.{{sfn|Coit|1950|pp=27–28}}{{sfn|Calhoun|2003|p=254}}{{sfn|Niven|1988|p=26}} In 1821, he became a founding member of [[All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)|All Souls Unitarian Church]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.all-souls.org/archives |title = All Souls History and Archives |publisher = All Souls Church Unitarian |access-date = May 30, 2016 |archive-date = May 10, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160510052043/http://all-souls.org/archives }}</ref>

Historian [[Merrill D. Peterson]] describes Calhoun: "Intensely serious and severe, he could never write a love poem, though he often tried, because every line began with 'whereas'&nbsp;..."{{sfn|Peterson|1988|p=27}}