Scott McCallum

Scott McCallum (2001)

James Scott McCallum (* 2. May 1950 in Fond du Lac , Wisconsin ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He was the 43rd governor of the state of Wisconsin from 2001 to 2003  .

Early years

McCallum was born the oldest of four children. He attended Goodrich Public High School at Fond du Lac and studied at Macalester College in Saint Paul , Minnesota , where he graduated in economics and political science in 1972 . He then attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , where he graduated in 1974 with a Masters in International Economics . In the mid-1970s he started a real estate company.

Political career

As a Republican Party member, McCallum was assistant to Congressman William A. Steiger . In 1976 McCallum was elected to the Wisconsin Senate. From 1976 to 1986 he was State Senator, during which time he supported the then active New Republican Conference , whose policy was economically conservative but was viewed more as liberal on social issues. He won the nomination for the US Senate in 1982 within his party , but lost the election with 34 percent of the vote against the Democrat William Proxmire (64 percent). In 1986 he ran for the office of lieutenant governor in the gubernatorial election of Republican Tommy Thompson . Thompson and McCallum were elected and held four terms in office.

Since Thompson was appointed US Secretary of Health by President George W. Bush in 2001 , McCallum took over the office of Governor of Wisconsin. He did this between February 1, 2001 and January 6, 2003. Politically, he did not set any new accents during these years. In the 2002 election, he lost to Democratic Party candidate Jim Doyle (Doyle 45 percent; McCallum 41 percent; Ed Thompson, Libertarian Party , 11 percent).

McCallum is the CEO of Aidmatrix, a development aid organization in Texas . He lives in Lodi , Columbia County , is married with three children.

Web links

Commons : Scott McCallum  - Collection of Images

• Scott McCallum in the database of the National Governors Association (English)
• Portrait ( memento from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on aidmatrix.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On This Day: May 2 on the Wisconsin Historical Society website