Jacob Call

Jacob Call (* in Kentucky ; †  April 20, 1826 in Frankfort , Kentucky) was an American politician . In 1824 and 1825 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The date and place of birth of Jacob Call have not been recorded. He grew up in Kentucky, where he also went to school. After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law, he began to work in his new profession in Vincennes and Princeton , Indiana. In 1820 he lost a case as a lawyer ( Polly v. Laselle ), which resulted in the release of all slaves in Indiana. Call was a district judge in Knox County between 1817 and 1818, and again from 1822 to 1824 .

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the early 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson . After the death of MP William Prince , he was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the first seat of Indiana , where he took up his new mandate on December 23, 1824. Until March 3, 1825, he could only end the current legislative period in Congress .

Jacob Call returned to Kentucky and died in Frankfort on April 20, 1826.

Web links

• Jacob Call in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)