Bob Calhoun

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| birthname = Robert Lathan Calhoun

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| state_senate = Virginia

| district = 30th

| term_start = December 12, 1988

| term_end = January 10, 1996

| preceded = Wiley F. Mitchell

| succeeded = Patsy Ticer

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|7|22}}

| birth_place = Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|8|6|1937|7|22}}

| death_place = Berryville, Virginia, U.S.

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| party = Republican

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| education = {{ubl|Tufts University (BA)|Yale University (MA, LLB)}}

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Robert Lathan Calhoun (July 22, 1937 – August 6, 2020) was a lawyer in Alexandria, Virginia, who served as a Republican member of the Alexandria City Council and the Senate of Virginia.{{cite news|last1=Becker|first1=Sarah|title=Alexandria Living Legend Bob Calhoun|url=https://www.alexandrianews.org/2012/alexandria-living-legend-bob-calhoun/|accessdate=5 September 2016|work=Alexandrianews.org|date=16 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220213643/https://www.alexandrianews.org/2012/alexandria-living-legend-bob-calhoun/|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status=dead}}

Early life and education

Calhoun was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 22, 1937. He graduated from Tufts University in 1959 and Yale Law School in 1963.

Political career

In 1975, Calhoun was elected to the Alexandria City Council on the Republican ticket, serving two three-year terms. In 1984, he ran again for a vacant seat on the city council and served until December 12, 1988, when he was elected in a special election to the Virginia Senate, representing the 30th Senate District, which included most of Alexandria and some precincts in Fairfax County, Virginia.{{cite web|title=Virginia Elections Database: Robert L. Calhoun (R)|url=http://historical.elections.virginia.gov/candidates/view/Robert-L-Calhoun/|website=Virginia Elections Database|accessdate=5 September 2016}} He served one partial and one full term in the Senate before being defeated by the mayor of Alexandria, Democrat Patsy Ticer, in 1995.

He was selected as a director of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, serving from 1997 to 2003. He practiced law in Alexandria, Virginia.{{cite web|title=Robert Calhoun|url=http://www.rpb-law.com/profile_calhoun.html|website=rpb-law.com|publisher=Redmon, Peyton & Braswell LLP.|accessdate=5 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829074011/http://www.rpb-law.com/profile_calhoun.html|archive-date=29 August 2016|url-status=dead}}

Death

On August 6, 2020, Calhoun died of prostate cancer in Berryville, Virginia, at age 83.{{cite web|url=https://alextimes.com/2020/08/obituary-bob-calhoun/ |title=Former City Councilor and State Sen. Bob Calhoun dies at 83 |publisher=Alextimes.com |date=2020-08-13 |accessdate=2020-08-16}}