Clair Armstrong Callan

Clair Armstrong Callan (born March 29, 1920 in Odell , Gage County , Nebraska , † May 28, 2005 in Fairbury , Nebraska) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the first constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clair Callan attended his home public schools and Peru State College . During World War II , he served in the US Navy on a destroyer in the Pacific.

Callan became a member of the Democratic Party . In his birthplace, Odell, he was a member of the community and school councils. He was also on the Gage County School Reform Committee. Callan also served on a committee of the Nebraska state government that dealt with administrative reorganization and chaired the Nebraska Power Review Board . He was also a farmer and rancher and ran a shop that supplied farmers with all kinds of necessities.

In 1964 Clair Callan was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded Ralph F. Beermann on January 3, 1965 . Since he was not confirmed in the next election, however, he could only complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1967 . In 1970 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Between 1967 and 1968 he was employed by the authority that dealt with the electrification of rural areas. He later became president of the company Allied Industries International Inc. and Agri-Tech in Nashville ( Tennessee ).

Web links

• Clair Armstrong Callan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Clair Armstrong Callan in the database of Find a Grave (English)