Robert McCallum, Jr.
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The Honourable Robert D. McCallum Jr. |
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| United States Ambassador to Australia | |
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In office 2006–2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Thomas Schieffer |
| Succeeded by | Jeff Bleich |
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| Born | 1946 (age 70–71) Memphis, Tennessee |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Rankin Weems |
| Alma mater |
Yale University; Oxford University |
Robert D. McCallum Jr. (born 1946), was the United States Ambassador to Australia from 2006–2009.
McCallum was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where his father, Robert D. McCallum, was a businessman. He was educated at Presbyterian Day School in Memphis and then at The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, where he was a star tennis player and captain of the basketball team. He then went to Yale University, where he graduated in 1968. At Yale his roommate and fellow member of Skull and Bones was George W. Bush. In 1968, McCallum was named a Rhodes Scholar and attended Oxford University in England. In 1969, he married Mary Rankin Weems ("Mimi") of Memphis. They have two adult sons, one of whom was also a Rhodes Scholar. McCallum graduated from Yale Law School in 1973.
After completing his LL.B. at Yale in 1973, McCallum joined the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird. Philip Alston, one of the principals of this firm, was U.S. Ambassador to Australia under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. McCallum remained with the firm for 28 years, before joining the U.S. Department of Justice in 2001 as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. In this position he oversaw litigation involving the defense of challenges to Presidential actions and acts of Congress; national security issues; immigration; benefit programs; commercial issues including health care fraud, banking, insurance, patents, debt collection; and the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act.
In July 2003 McCallum was appointed Associate Attorney General. He served as Acting Deputy Attorney General from September to December 2004 and from August 2005 until he resigned on being nominated as Ambassador to Australia.
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