Howard Callaway

Howard Hollis "Bo" Callaway
11th United States Secretary of the Army
In office May 15, 1973 – July 3, 1975
President	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Robert F. Froehlke
Succeeded by	Martin R. Hoffmann
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd district
In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967
Preceded by	Tic Forrester
Succeeded by	Jack Thomas Brinkley
Personal details
Born	April 2, 1927 (1927-04-02) LaGrange, Georgia
Political party	Republican

Howard Hollis "Bo" Callaway (born April 2, 1927) is a businessman and former politician from the state of Georgia.

Early life and education

Callaway was born in LaGrange, Georgia, west of Atlanta. His grandfather was Fuller Earle Callaway. He attended Georgia Tech and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. After his term in the Army ended, Callaway returned to Georgia to help his father develop and run Callaway Gardens in western Georgia. The gardens are located near Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous Warm Springs retreat.

Career

Like most southerners of his time, Callaway grew up as a supporter of the Democratic Party. In 1964, however, he ran as "Goldwater Republican" for a seat in the House of Representatives. He won, becoming the first Republican elected to the U.S. House from Georgia since the Reconstruction era. Callaway gave up his House seat to run for governor of Georgia in 1966, making him the first Republican nominee for Governor in Georgia since 1876. "Go Bo" was used as his gubernatorial campaign slogan, and some people unhappy with both major candidates (Lester Maddox was the Democratic candidate) would expand that to say "Go Bo, and take Lester with you". Callaway won a plurality over the segregationist Maddox in the general election, but a write-in effort in support of liberal former Governor Ellis Arnall denied Callaway a majority of votes. Under Georgia's election law then in effect, the state legislature was required to select a governor from the two candidates with the most votes. Dominated overwhelmingly by Democrats, the legislature selected Maddox.

Callaway moved to Colorado in the 1970s. He served as Secretary of the Army from 1973 to 1975 and as Gerald Ford's first campaign manager in 1976. Callaway was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1980, losing to challenger Mary Buchanan. The seat was retained by the incumbent, Democrat Gary Hart. Callaway then served as the chairman of the Colorado Republican party and as head of GOPAC.

A son-in-law, Terry Considine, also a Republican, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Colorado in 1992, losing to Democratic (later Republican) Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell.

External links

• Howard Callaway at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-07-02

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Tic Forrester	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd congressional district January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967	Succeeded by Jack Thomas Brinkley
Government offices
Preceded by Robert F. Froehlke	United States Secretary of the Army May 1973–July 1975	Succeeded by Martin R. Hoffmann