Richard K. Call

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Floridan politician (1792-1862)

United States PoliticiansLived 1792 to 1862 · aged 69

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Richard Keith Call was an American attorney and politician who served as the 3rd and 5th territorial governor of Florida. S. Congress from Florida. In the mid-1830s, he developed two plantations in Leon County, Florida, one of which was several thousand acres in size.

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Richard Keith Call, miniature by unknown artist (Florida State Archives, Tallahassee via The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 4)

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Richard Keith Call was an American attorney and politician who served as the 3rd and 5th territorial governor of Florida. Before that, he was elected to the Florida Territorial Council and as a delegate to the U.S. Congress from Florida. In the mid-1830s, he developed two plantations in Leon County, Florida, one of which was several thousand acres in size. In 1860, Call held more than 120 people as slaves, the third-most in the county. Call was a Southern Unionist who opposed Florida's declared secession during the American Civil War.

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