Tolliver Cleveland Callison Sr. (July 17, 1884 – March 17, 1966) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General of South Carolina from 1951 to 1958.
[1] His family had high social status in the county, and his father served two terms in the South Carolina General Assembly.
[4] Callison was admitted to the bar in 1909[3] and moved to Lexington, South Carolina, two years later to practice law.
[4] He served as a counsel for South Carolina during the arguments of Brown v. Board of Education before the United States Supreme Court.
[7] In 1957 Callison accused President Dwight D. Eisenhower of violating the United States Constitution when the latter federalized Arkansas troops to ensure the integration of Little Rock Central High School, saying, "A more serious crisis has never arisen in connection with internal affairs of the United States.