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Question: Favorite of the three?
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Henry Clay
 
#2
Daniel Webster
 
#3
John C. Calhoun
 
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« on: November 05, 2011, 10:11:27 PM »

I'm a Webster guy.
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2011, 10:16:02 PM »

Calhoun was a bit of an HP.  Between Webster and Clay, I only really know much about the latter.  So I voted for Clay.
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2011, 10:49:39 PM »

Among his other accomplishments, Clay was probably the best Secretary of State of the 19th century.
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« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2011, 10:58:17 PM »

Three rather unpleasant characters, hence why they're considered "great."  Triumvirate refers back to two groups of equally unpleasant characters in the past, so it's one of those appropriate appellations.
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2011, 06:37:58 PM »

Calhoun was a massive HP, but stood up for the states even on morally wrong issues, when he was VP under Jackson. Clay was also a big HP. Webster was a good person. I voted for Calhoun by mistake (I was gonna vote for him but rethought it over, yet I didn't check that I changed my vote Sad), so count me for Webster.
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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2011, 09:16:09 PM »

Clay, but I am fond of all three.
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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2011, 09:06:37 PM »

John C. Calhoun, my history teacher showed me a list of paintings and pictures, it goes from normal to some crazy mad scientist stuff.
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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2011, 10:08:16 PM »

Webster by default.  Least "I need a shower" of the three.
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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2011, 10:09:54 PM »

Calhoun, I'd love to marry the daughter of a white segregationist plantation owner oligarch type.
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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2011, 10:35:53 PM »

Clay.

I would have been the most frustrated observer of American politics from 1790-1860 thereabouts, constantly supporting the losing parties, Federalists, Whigs, etc.
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2011, 11:34:52 PM »

Calhoun, I'd love to marry the daughter of a white segregationist plantation owner oligarch type.

Then why did you go to Miami instead of Clemson?

For those who don't know, Clemson was founded by a bequest in the will of Calhoun's son-in-law, Thomas Clemson, and is located on Calhoun's former Fort Hill plantation which Clemson inherited.  Needless to say, Calhoun is the one of the triumvirate the Clemson University history department focuses their attention on.  BTW, while I was not a history major (or minor) I took a junior-level history course on this period while I was at Clemson because one of the scholarships I had required that I take a certain number of history or polisci courses to get the money, so I used it as one of my electives.
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« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2011, 11:36:53 PM »

Then why did you go to Miami instead of Clemson?

How old is that username? 2002? Relic of a time when the Hurricanes were actually good and the Big East wasn't a bad joke? It seems like so long ago.
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« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2011, 11:39:07 PM »

Then why did you go to Miami instead of Clemson?

How old is that username? 2002? Relic of a time when the Hurricanes were actually good and the Big East wasn't a bad joke? It seems like so long ago.

2003, unless he also used it elsewhere before.
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« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2011, 11:49:58 PM »

Then why did you go to Miami instead of Clemson?

How old is that username? 2002? Relic of a time when the Hurricanes were actually good and the Big East wasn't a bad joke? It seems like so long ago.

2003, unless he also used it elsewhere before.

Was he around on the old forum?
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« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2011, 12:14:04 AM »

Then why did you go to Miami instead of Clemson?

How old is that username? 2002? Relic of a time when the Hurricanes were actually good and the Big East wasn't a bad joke? It seems like so long ago.

2003, unless he also used it elsewhere before.

Was he around on the old forum?

Just about, yes.
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« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2011, 12:56:30 AM »

Clay, by a mile.
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