List of United States Political Families (C) - The Calhouns and Pickens

The Calhouns and Pickens

• John E. Colhoun (1749–1802), member of the South Carolina Legislature, U.S. Senator from South Carolina 1801-1802. First cousin of Joseph Calhoun and John Caldwell Calhoun.
• Joseph Calhoun (1750–1817), South Carolina State Representative 1804-1805, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1807-1811. First cousin of John E. Colhoun and John Caldwell Calhoun.
• John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850), South Carolina State Representative 1808, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1811-1817, U.S. Secretary of War 1817-1825, Vice President of the United States 1825-1832, U.S. Senator from South Carolina 1832-1843 1845-1850, U.S. Secretary of State 1844-1845. First cousin and son-in-law of John E. Colhoun and first cousin of Joseph Calhoun.
• Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), South Carolina State Representative 1781-1794 1800-1812, delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention 1790, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1793-1795, candidate for U.S. Senate from South Carolina 1797. Brother-in-law of John E. Colhoun.
  • Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888), U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium 1844-1851. Son-in-law of John Caldwell Calhoun.
  • Andrew Pickens (1779–1838), Governor of South Carolina 1816-1818. Son of Andrew Pickens.
  • James Calhoun (1811–1875), Georgia Assemblyman, Georgia State Senator, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1862-1865. Cousin of John Caldwell Calhoun.
    • Francis W. Pickens (1805–1869), South Carolina State Representative 1832-1834, U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1834-1843, South Carolina State Senator 1844-1846, U.S. Minister to Russia 1858-1860, Governor of South Carolina 1860-1862. Son of Andrew Pickens.
    • William Lowndes Calhoun (1837–1908), Georgia legislator 1872-1876, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1879-1881; Judge of the Court of Ordinary of Fulton County, Georgia 1881-1887. Son of James Calhoun.
      • Matthew C. Butler (1836–1909), South Carolina State Representative 1860 1866, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina 1870, U.S. Senator from South Carolina 1877-1895. Son-in-law of Francis W. Pickens.

NOTE: Matthew C. Butler was also son of U.S. Representative William Butler, grandson of U.S. Representative William Butler, nephew of U.S. Senator Andrew Pickens Butler and South Carolina Governor Pierce M. Butler, first cousin of Rhode Island legislator James DeWolf Perry, and first cousin by marriage of U.S. diplomat August Belmont.