Wilkinson Call (9 January 1834-24 August 1910) was a Democratic US Senator from Florida from 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1897, succeeding Simon B. Conover and preceding Stephen Mallory II.
Biography[]
Wilkinson Call was born in Russellville, Kentucky in 1834, the nephew of Richard K. Call and the cousin of David S. Walker and James D. Walker. He was raised in Tallahassee and Jacksonville, Florida, where he became a lawyer. He served as adjutant general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, after which he served in the US Senate from 1879 to 1897. He and Napoleon B. Broward became leaders of the populist faction of the Florida Democratic Party, backing William Jennings Bryan in 1896. This led the state legislature to not renominate Call in 1896, and he lived in Washington DC until his death in 1910.