Chris Callahan (Napoleon's World)

Christopher James Callahan (November 2, 1940 - April 1988) was an American Democratic politician from Kentucky, serving as a U.S. Senator from 1978, when he won a special election to fill the seat of Harland D. Sanders, until his death in 1988 when he was shot and killed during a victory celebration at the conclusion of the Pennsylvania primaries for the Democratic nomination. A "New Democrat," Callahan mixed economic progressivism with a "social moderation" viewed as more appropriate for the 1980s, thus striding a middle ground behind paleosegregationists in the South and Northeast liberals.