Herbert Leon "Sonny" Callahan is a politician from Alabama. Callahan was born in Mobile, Alabama he had eight brothers and sisters and he attended classes at a branch of the University of Alabama that was located in Mobile. He did not graduate. Callahan served in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1954. Callahan was involved in trucking and warehousing businesses. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1970 and he was elected to the Alabama Senate in 1978. 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. In 1982, Callahan lost a Democrat bid to become lieutenant governor. When the retiring U.S. Representative Jack Edwards requested that Callahan run for his seat as a Republican, Callahan switched parties and was elected in 1984 to Alabama's 1st congressional district, anchored about Mobile. Callahan won by 4,000 votes, mostly on the strength of a 6,000-vote margin in heavily Republican Baldwin County. 

September 11th, 1932 in Mobile (Age 92)