Education
He attended Homer High School, at which he played football on the 1929-1930 team
politician member of the Louisiana State Senate
He attended Homer High School, at which he played football on the 1929-1930 team
McCalman was the older of two sons of Arkansas natives Herbert Carl McCalman, Senior, and the former Nobie Guice. A brother was Herbert McCalman, Junior. (1915-1961). McCalman previously lived in Athens, also in Claiborne Parish.
After a single term, McCalman was unseated by Danny Roy Moore, another Democrat then from Claiborne Parish, who resides in Arcadia in Bienville Parish.
Mistress McCalman was the former Gladys Reavie Bennett (February 1, 1916 – April 12, 2015), the daughter of Ada and Barton Duvalle Bennett of rural Liddieville in Franklin Parish. She became a beautician after high school.
She died at the age of ninety-nine in Madison, Mississippi. Five McCalman children were born between 1940 and 1952: Herbert Duvalle McCalman, George Lawson McCalman, and Joan McCalman Miller, all deceased, and James Thomas McCalman, Junior., of Kenner in Jefferson Parish.
Lynda Ann McCalman-Tabor of Madison Mississippi.
Donald Gene McCalman of Homer, and David Allen McCalman of Omaha, Nebraska. He was a Southern Baptist.
