district predecessor successor birth_place imagesize party profession term_end birth_date term_start image article_title state name
6th & 11th william s. young thomas chilton thomas chilton willis green henry county , kentucky 200px national republican whig law november , 1835 -- march 3 , 1839 -lrb- 6th -rrb- 7 , 1827 -lrb- 11th -rrb- march 4 1797 november 5 , 1827 john calhoon.jpg john calhoon
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john calhoon

john calhoon -lrb- b. 1797 -rrb- was a united states representative from kentucky .
he was born in henry county , kentucky in 1797 .
he studied law , was admitted to the bar , and practiced .
calhoon was a member of the kentucky house of representatives in 1820 , 1821 , 1829 , and 1830 .
he was unsuccessful candidate for election to the twentieth congress .
he received the credentials of an election as an adams candidate to the twentieth congress , held november 5 -- 7 , 1827 , to fill the vacancy caused by the death of united states representative william s. young , but , in order to avoid a contest , resigned and , together with his opponent , thomas chilton , petitioned the governor of kentucky for a new election .
he was again unsuccessful in this election .
calhoon was elected as an anti-jacksonian to the twenty-fourth congress and as a whig to the twenty-fifth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1835 -- march 3 , 1839 -rrb- and was not a candidate for reelection to the twenty-sixth congress .
after leaving congress , he moved to st. louis , missouri in 1839 and resumed the practice of law .
he returned to kentucky and was appointed judge of the fourteenth judicial district in january 1842 .
he is the namesake of calhoun , kentucky , the seat of mclean county .
