Yes that would be John .C Calhoun.

Two quotes come to mind.


> "John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation, I will secede your head from the rest of your body.", Andrew Jackson [source][1]

The second occurred after Jackson left office.  His Vice. President and friend Martin Van Buren was just sworn in as the next president and Jackson is asked by a reporter if he has any regrets after his 8 years in office.

>  “[That] I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.” [source][2] Andrew Jackson

[![John C Calhoun][3]][3]

You shoot equals like in duels.  You hang criminals and traders.  That’s what he thought of Calhoun.


Calhoun had been John Quincy Adams Vice President and stayed in Washington as VP when Jackson was elected.

Tensions began between the two over social and policy issues.  

Calhoun’s wife refused to invite or attend events which included Jackson’s secretary of war John Eaton due to a scandal about how the two had gotten together and Eaton’s wife’s first husband. Jackson who had lost his own wife Peggy after she was  ostracized sided with Eaton.

Jackson and Calhoun then clashed over a federal road bill which Jackson believed was pork and Calhoun favored.

Then at a party on celebrating Thomas Jefferson Calhoun tried to trap Jackson into endorsing Calhoun’s states rights platform.  Jackson toasted the union making Calhoun look foolish.

Finally Calhoun resigned as VP in favor of becoming Senator from South Carolina.    Where he advocated for States having the right to nullify federal laws they didn’t like.  

This in return had Jackson deploy troops and ships to South Carolina to put down the secessionists.  This is where he tells Calhoun personally and any other secessionist in South Carolina generally if He Jackson loses any men due to there antics he’s going to start hanging them the ring leaders the next day.

Andrew Jackson was a bad dude.  He once fought a duel with someone who was a better shot than himself.  His strategy was to hold his fire getting shot square in the chest,  and then calmly killing his opponent.  When questioned on his tactics he says.  I would have still killed him if he had shot me in my head.


  [1]: http://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/andrew-jackson/166190
  [2]: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/12/nyregion/l-matter-of-hanging-or-shooting-clay-244126.html
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/dzFAk.jpg