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Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President. [15]
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
Although rugby is a club sport at Clemson, the team receives significant support from the university and from the Clemson Rugby Foundation, which was founded in 2007 by Clemson alumni. [69] Clemson rugby has been led since 2010 by head coach Justin Hickey, [ 70 ] who has also served as team manager for the U.S. national under-20 team .
[a] [3] All of Clemson's presidents have been white men. Robert Cook Edwards had the longest tenure at 21 years, [ 4 ] and Walter T. Cox Jr. had the shortest at eight months. [ 5 ] There have been two interim presidents, and five presidents who have been alumni of the university. [ 2 ]
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election.It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, [2] [3] [4] incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to ...
John C. Calhoun. John Caldwell Calhoun ( / kælˈhuːn /; [ 1] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
Clemson Tigers football. The Clemson Tigers are the American football team at Clemson University. The Tigers compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In recent years, the Tigers have been ranked among the most elite college ...
Frank Howard Field at Clemson Memorial Stadium, known as " Death Valley ", is home to the Clemson Tigers, an NCAA Division I FBS football team located in Clemson, South Carolina. Built in 1941–1942, the stadium has seen expansions throughout the years with the most recent being the WestZone with Phase 1 construction beginning in 2004 and ...