Charles A. Callis (1865-1947) was a lawyer and legislator in Utah and a photographer. He served in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Charles A. Callis (1865-1947) was born in Dublin, Ireland, son of John Callis and Susannah Charlotte Quilliam. His father died when he was a boy. He was just ten years of age when he and his mother immigrated to America using loans from the Church-sponsored Perpetual Emigration Fund. Charles worked in the coal mines at Coalville. B. H. Roberts encouraged him to attend Sunday meetings. Charles served as a missionary in Great Britain, including a number of months in his native Ireland. After returning to Coalville, he was elected to the state legislature, then studied law and became a member of the bar. He married Grace Elizabeth Pack in the early 1900s. In 1905, he was called to serve as a missionary in the Eastern States Mission (later changed to Southern States Mission). The brethren gave him permission to take his family with him. In August 1908, he was appointed mission president of the Southern States Mission and served for twenty-five years. Although he did not have time to practice law while serving as mission president, he was admitted to the Bar in South Carolina and Florida. This gave him access to social circles which he otherwise could not have entered. His wife was president of the Relief Societies in the Southern States for nineteen years. On Oct. 6, 1933, Elder Callis was chosen as one of the Council of the Twelve Apostles and ordained to that office October 14, 1933, by Heber J. Grant. He served as an Apostle until his death January 21, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida.