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Preston Harvey Callison, Sr., sometimes known as Pres Callison (born January 22, 1923), is a retired attorney who represented his native Lexington County, South Carolina, as a Democrat in the South Carolina House of Representatives. His tenure extended for two nonconsecutive terms from 1965 to 1966 and 1969 to 1970. ==Background== Callison is one of five children born in Lexington, South Carolina, to Tolliver Cleveland Callison, Sr. (1884-1966), a former Attorney General of South Carolina,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tolliver Cleveland Callison, Jr. )〕 and Margaret "Maggie" Reel Callison (1888-1960). He is predeceased by two sisters, Ruby Callison (1914-2013) and Helen Rawl (1919-2006), and two brothers, Tolliver Callison, Jr. (1917-1994), and Jack Reel Callison (1920-2005).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ruby S. Callison: Laurens, South Carolina )〕 Callison's parents are interred at East View Cemetery in Edgefield, South Carolina.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tolliver Cleveland Callison, Sr. )〕 Callison graduated from the University of South Carolina (1942) and the University of South Carolina School of Law (1947). His education was interrupted for 40 months of service in the US Army Air Corps during World War II. Callison was married in 1949 in Rutherfordton in Rutherford County in western North Carolina, to the former Helen Elizabeth Leppard (1927-2011), a Chicago native who held a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in education from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. She was a high school librarian in West Columbia and then Irmo, South Carolina. There are four Callison daughters, Kate C. Johnson of Eugene, Oregon, where Helen Callison died at the age of eighty-three and where Preston Callison still resided in 2013; Melissa C. Kremer of Rome, Georgia; Rebecca Callison and Dale Callison, both of Seattle, Washington, and son Preston H. Callison, Jr. (born 1961), of Jacksonville, Florida.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Helen Elizabeth Leppard Callison )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Preston Callison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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