John E. McCall

John E. McCall

John Ethridge McCall (born August 14, 1859 in Clarksburg , Carroll County , Tennessee , †  August 8, 1920 in Huntingdon , Tennessee) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John McCall attended both public and private schools and then studied until 1881 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1882, he began to work in Huntingdon in his new profession. There he published the newspaper "Tennessee Republican" in 1882. In December 1883, he moved his residence and law firm to Lexington .

Politically, McCall was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1887 and 1889 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee . In the years 1888 and 1900 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Benjamin Harrison and later William McKinley were nominated as presidential candidates. In 1890 and 1891, McCall was assistant federal attorney for western Tennessee. In the years 1892 and 1900 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Tennessee.

In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Benjamin A. Enloe on March 4, 1895 . Since he was not confirmed in 1896, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1897 . Between 1902 and 1905 McCall was head of the tax authority in the fifth tax district of his state. From January 17, 1905 until his death on August 8, 1920, he served as a judge in the federal district court for the western district of Tennessee.

Web links

• John E. McCall in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John E. McCall in the database of Find a Grave (English)