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EARLY LIFE- Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, to his father James Calloway and mother Marietta Oglesby. In his childhood days he spent time with George Washington Carver, who was a well-known soil chemist and also a faculty member at Tuskegee Institute now named Tuskegee University. (Blackpast.org)

LIFE- Calloway married Mary Borucki in Cook, Illinois year 1933. Which he had four kids by. He organized the Chicago chapter of the Urban League.

CAREER- Author, Chemist, Physician, Scientist, and Civil Rights Activist, he was a pioneer in the field of chemistry. In 1930, Calloway earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from Iowa State University. Three years later, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from Iowa State University.(Blackpast.org). Henry Gillman was Calloways Ph.D. advisor at Iowa State University. He was one of the few African American chemistry majors Gillman helped obtain their doctorates at ISU. (blackpast.com). Once he received his doctorates he managed to become apart of Fisk University’s Chemistry Department.(Blackpast.org) Calloway continued his passion for knowledge and discovery and earned his M.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1943. Calloway served as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Medical School and worked as a practicing physician. Calloway helped to establish the Medical Associates Clinic in Chicago. In 1926 he enrolled at Iowa State University. While there he earned his BS in Chemistry in 1930 and obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1933, the same year he got married. He led the department of chemistry at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1935. Then he taught in Fisk University's chemistry department until 1940. (oxforfaasc.com) Dr. Calloway served as a lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps during World War II. In 1946, he published approximately 17 papers and had four more in process. His research was in chemistry, pharmacology and internal medicine. In 1947, Calloway rose from assistant to senior professor at University of Illinois Medical School. In 1950, he became the Assistant Chief of Medicine at Percy Jones Army Hospital and was promoted to major. (hbcu connections.org)In the late 1950s, he taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Later that year the Wisconsin State Medical Examining Board brought charges against him related to a prescription drug scandal involving his medical practice in Madison. He beat the charges and In 1958, Dr. Calloway opened a group medical practice in Chicago. He became Chief of the Medical Staff at the Tomah Wisconsin Veterans Administration Hospital in 1963. He then opened a private practice in Madison in 1966. (hbcu connections.com)

CHEMISTRY- Calloway studied synthetic organic chemistry, a branch of chemistry that focuses on compounds that contain the element carbon. (Blackpast.org) Also had a passion for writing Calloway published several peer-reviewed articles in top chemistry journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society. (Blackpast.org)