Former Georgia congressman Bo Callaway dies

[alp227]

Source: AP

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) —Howard "Bo" Callaway Sr., a former Georgia congressman, Army secretary and one of the founders of Callaway Gardens, died Saturday. He was 86.

Callaway died at an assisted-living facility in Columbus from complications from a brain hemorrhage he suffered about two years ago, said Rachel Crumbley, a Callaway Gardens spokeswoman.

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Callaway was elected to Congress in 1964, becoming the first Republican congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction. He left Congress to run for governor in 1966. Callaway actually received 3,000 more votes than the Democratic nominee, segregationist Lester Maddox, but because former Gov. Ellis Arnall mounted a write-in campaign, no candidate received the majority needed to win.

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In 1973, he was appointed Secretary of the Army. From 1970 until 2003, he was the principal owner and CEO of Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado. In 1980, he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in Colorado and he was chairman of the state Republican Party there from 1981 until 1987.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/former-georgia-congressman-bo-callaway-dies

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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Bo Callaway dies at age 86; also an interview with Jimmy Carter, who was a political rival to Callaway throughout the 1960s.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Howard “Bo” Callaway: ‘Superstar’ of Republican party

In 1997, a House Ethics Committee investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich named Callaway's Lincoln Foundation as among tax exempt organizations used to subsidize Gingrich political activities.

[yankee dandee]

1. Bo

Living in Georgia, it is good to see the old racist frats dying off...it will take another century to get rid of the good ol' white boys and their grip on politics here.
No loss.

[calimary]

3. Welcome to DU, yankee dandee!

Glad you're here. My sympathies to you for having to live behind enemy lines. I HOPE they all die off. But this cancer has gripped our country for centuries. I HOPE they die off. But the bad guys always seem to find ways to resurrect themselves.

[alp227]

6. Really?

"There were a lot of other folks, there were a lot of good Democrats who supported Callaway against Maddox for several good reasons," Jones said. "Lester Maddox stood for everything that at that time was bad in Georgia politics. He was very racist. He ran a racist campaign. He had run full-page ads every Saturday in the Atlanta newspapers for years demeaning integration and things of that line."

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/03/15/3005080/bo-callaway-dies-at-age-86.html

[hadrons]

2. Bo Callaway, he made the world a better place ...

by leaving it.

[Turbineguy]

4. The Callaway Gardens are nice.

There's one area in particular. You park the car and walk across the road. There's a giant hedge that obscures the view. But there is an entrance. You walk through this entrance. and see this incredible garden. My first thought was, "so this must be what Heaven is like!"

[840high]

5. Calloway Gardens is lovely - we

have spent many week-ends there.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Yes, it's a beautiful place

We were there one weekend for World Fantasy Con. Fortunately, it was a cool spell.