Wilkinson Call

Wilkinson Call

Wilkinson Call (January 9, 1834-August 24, 1910) was a US Senator from Florida who served as a Democrat from 1879 to 1897.

Call was a nephew of Florida Governor Richard K. Call and cousin of Arkansas Senator James D. Walker; born in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky; attended the common schools; moved to Jacksonville, Florida; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced; served as adjutant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War; elected to the United States Senate on December 29, 1865, but was not permitted to take the seat; member of the Democratic National Executive Committee; practiced law in Jacksonville; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879; reelected in 1885 and 1891 and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1897; chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-third United States Congress), Committee on Patents (Fifty-third Congress); retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.


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