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NICKNAME -

MOTTO - "FOR PEACE READY"

CLASS - (SSBN-616) LAFAYETTE Ballistic Missile Submarine (13)

AWARDED - 1961

BUILDER - Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA

IN COMMISSION - 1964 - 1994

DISPOSITION - completed Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, November, 1994.

JOHN C. CALHOUN Awards/Recognition - Navy Meritorious Unit Citation (2) - National Defense Service Medal

JOHN C. CALHOUN factoid - she was the twenty-third of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) LINKS

USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - SubNet JOHN C. CALHOUN stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn630.htm ]
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center JOHN C. CALHOUN DANFS narrative page.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - an unofficial JOHN C. CALHOUN page. [ www.esper.com/marshall/index.html ]
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - JOHN C. CALHOUN Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - the NavySite.de JOHN C. CALHOUN page.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - a JOHN C. CALHOUN site by Webmaster Kenn McDermott.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - Military.com submarine JOHN C. CALHOUN Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - by Stanley J. Bice.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" JOHN C. CALHOUN page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/630.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - a JOHN C. CALHOUN narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - a Wikipedia.org JOHN C. CALHOUN page.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - a USSVI Ship's Profile page w/Classification, Characteristics, Key Dates, Reunion/Association, Crew Lists (available on DeckLog), History, Internet Associations and Reunions, Photo and Patch.
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN-630) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name JOHN C. CALHOUN is from the famous early American who was born 18 March 1782 in Abbeville District, SC, educated at Yale, and admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1807. Following a term in the state legislature from 1808 to 1809 Calhoun entered the House in 1811, where he quickly became a leader of the "War Hawks" and supported nationalistic legislation after the War of 1812. He served as Secretary of War under Monroe; was a candidate for President in 1824; but was elected Vice-President, serving under Adams and Jackson between 1825 and 1832. Breaking with Jackson largely over nullification, Calhoun served in the Senate from 1832 until 1844 and became a leading exponent of state's rights and philosopher of nullification. After a year as Tyler's Secretary of State, in which he secured the annexation of Texas, he returned to the Senate. A brilliant thinker and dynamic statesman, Calhoun was too ill to deliver his last speech, on the Compromise of 1850; and it was read instead by Senator Mason, of Virginia, 4 March 1850. Calhoun died in Washington 30 March 1850, to stand as America's greatest state's rights theoretician and one of its most distinguished legislators.