Fuller Earle Callaway Sr. (July 15, 1870 – February 12, 1928) was an American textile manufacturer who was regarded as one of the leading industrial magnates of the Southern United States during the first decades of the 20th century.

[3] Entrepreneurial in spirit from his youth, at age 18 Callaway made use of $500 he had saved in addition to borrowed starting capital and launched a dime store in his native LaGrange.

After expansion, his Callaway Department Store became the largest such firm in LaGrange and the flagship of a small regional chain.

[2] Callaway worked as secretary-treasurer of the company, later known as Kex Plant, and continued to reinvest his profits over the subsequent two decades.

[2] In 1919 Callaway was named by President Woodrow Wilson as one of 22 members of a blue ribbon Industrial Relations Committee.

They met in October of that year in an attempt to negotiate broad agreement on wages and prices in the rapidly evolving post-World War I American economy, but were unsuccessful.