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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