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About Richard K. Call
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.
Everything about Richard K. Call →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Governor of the Territory of Florida, Governor of the Territory of Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 24, 1792
- Died
- September 14, 1862