John C. Callaghan

John C. Callaghan (born July 9, 1869 in Gallitzin , Pennsylvania , † January 27, 1929 in Phoenix , Arizona ) was an American miner and politician .

Career

John C. Callaghan, son of Mary Sloan (1847-1927) and James Callaghan (1844-1913), both Irish immigrants, was born in Cambria County in 1869 and grew up there. At the age of eleven, he began working at the Webster Coal & Coke Company in Ehrenfeld , which later became part of Johnstown . Callaghan also attended evening school in the following years. Most recently he worked as an accountant and cashier for the Webster Coal & Coke Company. In 1898 Callaghan moved to the Arizona Territory . There he worked first in the office of the Arizona Copper Company in Clifton , which was then in Graham County and is now in Greenlee County , and then in the warehouse of the Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee ( Cochise County ). From 1903 to 1904 he then served under Sheriff AV Lewis in Tombstone, Cochise County.

Callaghan also had a political career. In 1911 he was a Republican for state auditor from Arizona selected. He was re-elected in 1914 as a Democrat . He held the post of State Auditor from 1912 to 1917. His tenure was overshadowed by the First World War . Callaghan was elected Treasurer of State of Arizona in 1926 - a post he held from 1927 to 1929. On November 6, 1928, he was elected Secretary of State of Arizona. He was supposed to take his oath of office on January 7, 1929. The appointment had to be postponed, however, as he was at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix at that time, where he died on January 27, 1929.

Throughout his life, he was President of the State Board of Equalization and served on the State Board of Control, the State Board of Commissioners of Paroled Prisoners, the State Loan Commission, and the Land Board of Arizona. He was a member of the Elks and the Past Exalted Ruler of Bisbee Lodge No. 671.

literature

Janice Ryan Bryson and Kathleen Shappee Wood: Irish Arizona , Arcadia Publishing, 2009, ISBN 9780738556475 , p. 85
Journal , Arizona, Legislature, Senate, 1929, p. 69

Web links

John C. Callaghan on the Arizona Secretary of State website

John C. Callaghan on the Our Campaigns website

Office of the Arizona State Treasurer

Individual evidence

^ Mary Sloan Callaghan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 4, 2016.
↑ James Callaghan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 4, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Callaghan, John C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American miner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gallitzin , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	January 27, 1929
Place of death	Phoenix , Arizona

[1] Mary Sloan Callaghan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 4, 2016.

[2] James Callaghan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 4, 2016.