John B. Callahan
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John B. Callahan is the mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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[edit] Elections
[edit] 2003
He was first elected mayor in November 2003, in a landslide victory, not only taking over 60% of the popular vote, but also winning every ward in the city. He was inaugurated on January 5, 2004.
[edit] 2005
Mayor Callahan was re-elected in the 2005 primary elections and ran upposed in the general election. He was sworn into a four-year term on January 3, 2006.
[edit] Bethlehem City Council
Callahan served on the Bethlehem city council from 1998 to 2004. When he was first elected into the chambers, he became the youngest ever councilman in the history of his city. He chaired the Finance Committee and the Public Works Committee.
[edit] Non-Political History
Mayor Callahan grew up on the West Side of Bethlehem and graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Biology from Moravian College. Callahan was a Senior Institutional Healthcare Consultant for Pfizer Inc. The company had employed him for 13 years. He and his wife, Mafalda, have three children and reside in Northeast Bethlehem.
Mayor Callahan is also a recent graduate of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Executive Program on Leadership in the 21st Century as well as the Transition and Leadership for New Elected Mayors Program. Mayor Callahan recently was invited back to the Kennedy School by the United States Conference of Mayors to speak about the transitioning from campaigning to governing. He serves on the Board of Directors for Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, and the Minsi Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America, for which he is also the Chair of the Urban Scouting Program in Bethlehem. Mayor Callahan is also a member of the Bethlehem Rotary Club.
