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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaCALLAWAY, Howard Hollis (Bo)
(1927—)
CALLAWAY, Howard Hollis (Bo), a Representative from Georgia; born in LaGrange, Troup County, Ga., April 2, 1927; attended the public schools of LaGrange and Hamilton in Georgia; graduated from Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va., 1944; attended Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.,1944-1945; graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1949; served in Korea as an Infantry platoon leader in 1949 and 1950 and as an instructor in tactics at Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga., 1951-1952; president of Callaway Gardens, 1953-1970, and the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, 1956-1970; director of Georgia Power Co., Atlanta, Ga., 1960-1964, and the Trust Co. of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., 1958-1964; chairman, Freedom’s Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa., 1966-1973; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1966; member, executive committee, Republican National Committee; National Committeeman for Georgia 1968-1973; Secretary of the Army, 1973-1975; campaign manager, The President Ford Committee, July 1975-April 1976; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate in 1980; chairman, Colorado Republican Party, 1981-1987; chairman, GOPAC, 1987-1993; is a resident of Crested Butte, Colo.
Henderson, Harold P. “The 1966 Gubernatorial Election in Georgia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 1982.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Nomination of Callaway and Hill; Hearing, Ninety-third Congress, lst session, on Nomination of Howard H. Callaway of Georgia, to be Secretary of the Army; Nomination of Robert C. Hill...May 8, 1973.
93rd Cong., 1st sess., 1973. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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