Daniel H. Calhoun

Daniel Hovey Calhoun (November 24, 1927 – March 23, 2019) was an American historian. A 1967 Guggenheim Fellow, his works included The American Civil Engineer, Professional Lives in America (1965), The Intelligence of a People (1973). He was a professor at University of California, Davis for more than twenty years and president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic from 1982 to 1983. Biography Daniel Hovey Calhoun was born on November 24, 1927, in Brownsville, Tennessee,

He worked as an instructor and lecturer at Princeton University (1956-1958), Columbia University (1958-1959), and Harvard University (1959-1966), where he was promoted to assistant professor in 1962. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic from 1982 to 1983.

Calhoun was gay and was part of the San Francisco Bay Area's LGBTQ community. He was 91.