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Andrew Taylor Call, born in 1981 in south Florida, has lived in Virginia since 1985.
He is a great-grandson of the late Willard Bunn and Ruth Regan Bunn of Springfield. (Hogan-Hanrahan-Regan-Bunn-Taylor-Call
connection*).
Homeschooled when younger, he is an Honors Graduate, Class of 1999, of Cave Spring High School in Roanoke. He graduated from the University of Virginia as a History major in 2003. In 2001 at UVa he founded and was President of the Patrick Henry Law Society until his graduation. He received his J.D. degree in May, 2007, from The Appalachian School of Law in Virginia, where he was President of ASL’s chapter of the Federalist Society and a member of the school’s Blackwell Inn of Phi Delta Phi, the International Legal Fraternity.
He is pursuing an L.L.M. degree at John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Andrew is a winner of the Willard Owens Award for Excellence in Community Service, and a charter member of The Hamilton Society, an
organization that recognizes and honors law students who have served
in the Armed Forces.
Working on a paper on the business legacy of (his great-great-great grandfather) Jacob Bunn in
2003, he established the Andrew Taylor Call Business History Fund at UVa’s Alderman Library and the Jacob Bunn Business History Award to be given annually to an undergraduate through the Corcoran Department of History. It was first awarded in 2004. He is a member of the judges’ panel of the
James Monroe Memorial Foundation Scholarship
Program, Director of the Monroe Doctrine website, and a new member of the National Advisory Board of the Foundation. A member of the Capital City Historic Research Associates, of Springfield, IL, he contributed to a project on 19th century businessman Dr. George
Pasfield. He designed and initiated the "U.S. Route 11 Article
Series" for "Blue Ridge Traditions",
a web site created and edited by Ibby Greer, his mother. Andrew is also a contributing editor, and on the Board of Blue Ridge Lady, Inc.,
publisher of "Blue
Ridge Traditions".
Andrew is the founder
of American Business Legacy Emissaries
(ABLE), a program conducted through the American National Business
Hall of Fame, that enables lectures on business ethics and business
and industrial legacy at high schools around North America. In 2005
he was appointed Special Advisory Representative for the American
National Business Hall of Fame. In
March, 2006, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the
American National Business Hall of Fame (ANBHF).
He has lectured on the legal aspects
of business history before a Constitutional law class, and was a
speaker in an Illinois historical lecture series, presenting on the
legacies of Springfield business and civic leaders.
Andrew hopes for a career as
a legal consultant to the corporate world, with a focus on business
history, ethics, and integrity.
Andrew's home since 1990 has been at The Grove, an antebellum plantation in downtown Rocky Mount, VA.
Andrew can be
contacted through
blueridgetraditions.com,
or by writing to:
Blue Lady Bookshop
P.O. Box 800
Rocky Mount, VA 24151 *A wee bit o' Irish: see the Hanrahan [and Bunn] line in
"The Hogans of Chippewa County".
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