James Yancy Callahan

James Yancy Callahan (* December 19, 1852 in Salem, Dent County, Missouri, † May 3, 1935 in Enid, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the Oklahoma Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Callahan attended the common schools and worked on a farm. In 1880 he became minister of the Methodist Church and was active in agriculture. He also operated a sawmill and engaged in mining. In 1885 he moved to the Stanton County, Kansas, where he was a 1886-1889 land registry officials. After that, he returned briefly to Missouri before he moved to the Oklahoma Territory in 1892. There he settled in the vicinity of the place Kingfisher in Kingfisher County, where he was also engaged in farming.

As a candidate of the free- silver movement Callahan was in 1896 elected delegates to the Oklahoma Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he entered on March 4, 1897, the successor of Dennis Thomas Flynn. Until March 3, 1899, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In 1898, he did not run again and his seat fell back to Flynn. After the end of his time in Congress Callahan was until 1913 the newspaper " Jacksonian " in Enid out. For health reasons, he retired in 1913 has gone into retirement. James Callahan died in 1935 in Enid and was also buried there.