Clair Armstrong Callan

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

Career

Clair Callan attended the common schools and the Peru State College. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy on a destroyer in the Pacific.

Callan was a member of the Democratic Party. In his birthplace Odell, he was a member of the community and the school board. He was also in the school reform committee of Gage County. Callan was also a member of a committee of the state government of Nebraska, which dealt with the reorganization of the administration, as well as chairman of the Nebraska Power Review Board. He also was a farmer and rancher and operated a business that supplied farmers with commodities of all kinds.

1964 Clair Callan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Ralph F. Beermann on January 3, 1965. Since he was not confirmed at the next election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1967. In 1970 he applied unsuccessfully for a return to Congress. Between 1967 and 1968 he was with the authority which dealt with the electrification of rural areas, employed. Later he became president of the Allied Industries International Inc. and Agri - tech companies in Nashville ( Tennessee).