Robert L. "Bob" Calhoun (born 1937) is an attorney in Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

 and served as a Republican member of the Alexandria City Council and the Senate of Virginia

Senate of Virginia

The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 Senators representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts. The Senate is presided over by the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia...

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Early life and education

Calhoun was born in Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois. Oak Park has easy access to downtown Chicago due to public transportation such as the Chicago 'L' Blue and Green lines,...

 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. He served one partial and one full term in the Senate before being defeated by the Mayor of Alexandria, Democrat Patsy Ticer

Patsy Ticer

Patricia Smith "Patsy" Ticer is an American politician. A Democrat, she was mayor of Alexandria, Virginia from 1991 to 1996, when she began service in the Senate of Virginia. She the 30th District, made up of parts of Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the city of Alexandria. She will not be a...

in 1995.

He was selected as Director of the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, serving from 1997 - 2003. He now practices law in Alexandria, Virginia.