Robert McCallum Jr.

Robert McCallum Jr.
23rd United States Ambassador to Australia
In office
August 24, 2006 – January 20, 2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byThomas Schieffer
Succeeded byJeff Bleich
United States Deputy Attorney General
Acting
In office
August 15, 2005 – March 17, 2006
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byJames Comey
Succeeded byPaul McNulty
14th United States Associate Attorney General
In office
June 27, 2003 – March 17, 2006
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft
Alberto Gonzales
Preceded byJay B. Stephens
Succeeded byKevin J. O'Connor
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division
In office
September 17, 2001 – 2003
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft
Preceded byDavid W. Ogden
Succeeded byPeter Keisler
Personal details
Born
Robert Davis McCallum Jr.

(1946-01-30) January 30, 1946 (age 78)[1]
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Mary Rankin Weems
(m. 1969)
EducationYale University (BA, JD)
Christ Church, Oxford (BA)

Robert Davis McCallum Jr. (born January 30, 1946) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served in the Bush administration. He was the Associate Attorney General of the United States from 2003 to 2006, also acting as the Deputy Attorney General from 2005 to 2006. He was appointed as the United States Ambassador to Australia in 2006, a capacity in which he served until the end of Bush's term in 2009.