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Sonny Callahan (Herbert Leon Callahan) was born on 11 September, 1932 in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., is an American politician (1932–2021). Discover Sonny Callahan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Herbert Leon Callahan
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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 11 September 1932
Birthday 11 September
Birthplace Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Date of death 25 June, 2021
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1932

Herbert Leon "Sonny" Callahan (September 11, 1932 – June 25, 2021) was an American businessman and politician from Alabama.

Callahan was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1932 to a large Irish Catholic family.

He had eight brothers and sisters.

After attending public schools, he attended classes at the University of Alabama, Mobile campus.

1952

He left college before graduation, serving in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1954.

Afterward Callahan returned to Mobile, where he started work in the trucking and warehousing businesses.

He joined the Democratic Party and became active.

1960

During this period since the social changes of the 1960s, which resulted in African Americans regaining their ability to exercise their franchise in southern states, many white former Democrats in the South were shifting to the Republican Party.

However, conservative Democrats like Callahan continued to do well at the state level in the Mobile area.

Callahan was also undoubtedly helped by the presence of the popular President Ronald Reagan atop the ticket that year for his second term; Reagan carried the 1st district with more than 60 percent of the vote.

1970

He ran and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970; in 1978 he was elected to the Alabama Senate.

When he left the state House and the state Senate, he was succeeded each time by Ann Bedsole, a Mobile businesswoman, philanthropist, and a moderate Republican.

1982

After being elected as a Democrat from Mobile to the state house and senate, he shifted to the Republican Party after losing a race for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama in 1982.

In 1982, Callahan lost a Democratic bid to become lieutenant governor of the state.

1984

When 10-term Republican congressman Jack Edwards decided not to run for re-election in 1984, Callahan was heavily wooed by both parties to run for the seat.

He ultimately decided to run as a Republican.

Callahan won by 4,000 votes, mostly on the strength of a 6,000-vote margin in the heavily Republican Baldwin County.

To date, 1984 is the only time the Democrats have come close to retaking the 1st congressional district since Edwards won it for the Republicans in 1964.

Callahan would never face another contest nearly that close.

The Democrats have never come reasonably close to winning the seat since Callahan's initial run; indeed, the 1984 contest is the only time since the GOP began its current run in the seat that a Democrat has managed even 40 percent of the vote.

1985

He was repeatedly elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1985 to 2003.

Afterward he established his own lobbying firm and continued to be active in the Republican Party.

1986

He was unopposed for reelection in 1986, a year that was far more difficult for Republicans at the national level.

1988

He easily defeated underfunded Democratic challengers for the House seat in 1988, 1992, 1994, and 1996.

1990

He ran unopposed in 1990 and 1998, and faced only a Libertarian challenger in 2000.

However, conservative Democrats continued to hold a number of state and local offices in the district well into the 1990s.

1994

When the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, Callahan became the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs.

Callahan had voted against numerous foreign aid bills before taking the chairmanship, and he remained skeptical of foreign aid.

1998

In 1998 it became known that Callahan was speaking by phone with President Bill Clinton during one of the President's first sexual encounters with aide Monica Lewinsky.

2001

In 2001, Callahan became the chairman of the Energy and Water Development subcommittee.

2003

Callahan retired from the House in 2003.

His chief of staff, Jo Bonner, won the election to replace Callahan, receiving huge support from both Callahan and Edwards.

After leaving Congress, Callahan founded Sonny Callahan and Associates, a lobbying firm that he headed.

He served as campaign chairman for businessman Tim James' unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for Governor of Alabama.

Callahan also joined Dawson & Associates in Washington, D.C., as an advisor on federal budget and permitting matters.

2004

In the Summer of 2004, Callahan wrote a letter to State Lands Director James Hillman Griggs, complaining that Federal Coastal Zone Management pass-through grant money, which had been entrusted to the City of Orange Beach for beach development, was not going to the intended recipients.

Griggs' office investigated and cancelled the grant and additional funding requested by Orange Beach Mayor Steve Russo and City Attorney Larry Sutley.

The United States Department of Justice initiated an investigation and indicted the two officials as well as developer Ken Wall.

2006

In 2006, Russo, Sutley, and Wall were convicted of corruption and obstruction of justice related to a scheme to "enrich the mayor in exchange for favorable treatment [of developers] on large construction projects in the city."

Callahan died on June 25, 2021, at the age of 88.