Howard Callaway
| Bo Callaway | |
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| 11th United States Secretary of the Army | |
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In office May 15, 1973 – July 3, 1975 |
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| President |
Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Ford, Jr. |
| Preceded by | Robert F. Froehlke |
| Succeeded by | Martin R. Hoffmann |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd district |
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In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967 |
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| Preceded by | Tic Forrester |
| Succeeded by | Jack Thomas Brinkley |
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Howard Hollis Callaway April 2, 1927 LaGrange, Georgia, USA |
| Died | March 15, 2014 (aged 86) Columbus, Georgia |
| Cause of death | Cerebral hemorrhage |
| Resting place | Callaway Family Mausoleum Hamilton, Georgia |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican (1964) |
| Spouse(s) | Laura Elizabeth "Beth" Walton Callaway (married 1949–2009, her death) |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1949–1952 |
| Battles/wars | Korean War |
Howard Hollis Callaway, Sr., known as Bo Callaway (April 2, 1927 – March 15, 2014), was an American politician and businessman from the states of Georgia and Colorado.
Callaway was born in LaGrange in Troup County in west Georgia, southwest of the state capital city of Atlanta, the son of Cason Jewell Callaway, Sr. and the grandson of Fuller Earle Callaway. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and then the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from which he was graduated.
After serving in the Army, Callaway returned to Georgia to help his father develop and operate their beloved Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia, near Franklin D. Roosevelt's Warm Springs retreat in Meriwether County.
Like most southerners at the time, Callaway grew up as a supporter of the Democratic Party. He switched parties out of frustration with the Democrats' more liberal policies regarding desegregation. In 1964, he ran as a "Goldwater Republican" for a seat in the House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd congressional district. He won, having defeated the former lieutenant governor, Garland T. Byrd, 57 percent to 43 percent. Callaway thus became the first Republican elected to the US House from Georgia since the Reconstruction era.
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