About Ambrose Callighan
Lived 1882 – 1955 (aged 72–73). Ambrose Callighan was a trade unionist.
Ambrose Callighan (12 April 1883 – 15 March 1955) was a British trade unionist.
Callighan was born in Jarrow, County Durham. He worked in a foundry, joining the Cleveland Blastfurnacemen's Association. He also joined the Labour Party, and was elected to Jarrow Town Council in 1911.
In 1913, Callighan served as chairman of the Cleveland Blastfurnacemen. In 1919, he moved to Cumberland to become full-time secretary of the Cumberland and Lancashire Blastfurnacemen's Association, and in 1921, he was elected to Cumberland County Council.
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