Wilkinson Call

Wilkinson Call

Wilkinson Call (* 9. January 1834 in Russellville , Logan County , Kentucky ; † 24. August 1910 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the state of Florida in the United States Senate represented.

Call came from a family of politicians. His uncle Richard Keith Call was twice governor of the Florida Territory between 1836 and 1844 and represented it in the US House of Representatives ; his cousin James David Walker was a member of the US Senate as a representative of Arkansas for six years on the side of calls.

Call, who grew up in Kentucky and went to school there, moved as a young man to Jacksonville , Florida, where he trained as a lawyer and continued to practice after he was admitted to the bar. During the American Civil War he served with the rank of adjutant general in the Confederate Army .

Shortly after the war, Call was elected to the US Senate on December 29, 1865; however, he was refused entry into office. He gained influence in the Democratic Party and was part of its National Executive Committee . He continued to work as a lawyer before winning a Senate election for the second time in 1879: this time he was able to take his seat. After two re-elections, Wilkinson Call spent a total of 18 years in the Senate before retiring on March 3, 1897. During this time he was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Patents .

Call then continued to live in Washington, where he died in 1910.

Web links

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