American politician

Robert Lathan Calhoun (July 22, 1937 – August 6, 2020) was an attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, and served as a Republican member of the Alexandria City Council and the Senate of Virginia.

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. 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 director of the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, serving from 1997 to 2003. He practiced law in Alexandria, Virginia.

He died of prostate cancer on August 6, 2020, in Berryville, Virginia, at age 83.

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