| John Niven AKA William John Niven Born: 26-Oct-1921
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 14-Aug-1997
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union Military service: US Navy Reserve (1942-46, Lt.) Father: William John Niven
Mother: Marion Fredricks
Wife: Elizabeth Thomson (m. 11-Sep-1948, one son, one daughter)
Son: John Drake
Daughter: Katherine Pope
University: BA, University of Connecticut (1943)
University: MA, Columbia University (1947)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1954)
Associate Professor: Claremont Graduate University (1965-90)
General Dynamics (1951-60)
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern History Association
Author of books:
Connecticut for the Union: The Role of the State in the Civil War (1965, history)
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy (1973, biography)
Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics (1983, biography)
The American President Lines and Its Forebears, 1848-1984: From Paddlewheelers to Containerships (1987, corporate history)
John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union (1988, biography)
The Coming of the Civil War, 1837-1861 (1990, history)
Salmon P. Chase: A Biography (1995, biography)
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