Question: Who is Calhoun County named for?
Answer: Vice President John C. Calhoun
Florida’s Territorial legislature created Calhoun County in January 1838, out of parts of Escambia, Gadsden, Jackson, Washington, and Lafayette (the lost county) counties. Calhoun County was named after former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun. Calhoun had served as vice president under Presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. When the United States gained Florida as a territory, Calhoun was serving as U.S. Secretary of War. At the time the county was created, he was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
