Burial Place
Calhoun is buried in Oakland Cemetery. His son, William Lowndes Calhoun, served as Atlanta's mayor in the 1870s.
In the Arthur Conan Doyle Story The Five Orange Pips, Sherlock Holmes points out Calhoun as the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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