John B. Callis

Quill platform ID: p11331.

(2 January 1828 – 24 September, 1898) Callis was a businessman and officer in the Union army. John Benton Callis was born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County North Carolina. He later moved to Tennessee, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, then Minnesota again. Callis was appointed military superintendent prior to his resignation of the army. Soon after, he was elected to the 40th Congress as a Republican for the state of Alabama from July 21, 1868 to the 3 of March, 1869.

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Member of Alabama Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment.

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