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The leader of South Carolina's reaction to nullify the tariff of 1826 by Andrew Jackson was politician John C. Calhoun from South Carolina
Doctrine of Nullification and South Carolina threatened to succeed from the Union.
There was a flap over the wife of Jackson's Secretary of War, She had been a been a bar-maid and was not considered to be a lady by Mrs Calhoun, who refused to socialize with her. Calhoun also hated the federal tariffs and claimed the right of a state to nullify federal laws that it found unacceptable. Jackson did not agree that a state had such a right.
While Calhoun had previously voted for tariffs to protect new industries , he was opposed to the Tariff of 1828. When the bill appeared in Senate, Calhoun had decided he would be the deciding vote against it. However, the tariff passed. In protest, Calhoun encouraged nullification of the tariff in his home state of South Carolina which prompted President Jackson to send warships to the harbor to enforce it. .
John C. Calhoun supported South Carolina's uproar to the tariffs set by Andrew Jackson and the rights of South Carolina's legislation.He nullified- " to void" any laws set against the state. John resigned from office which made deductions in the tariff taxes.