Call, Wilkinson
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born in Russellville, Ky., but removed to Florida when a child. He served as adjutantgeneral in the confederate army in the war between the states; was presidential elector for the state at large in 1872 and 1876; was member of the national democratic executive committee in 1876, and delegate to the national democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876. He was chosen senator by the legislature of Florida under the provisional government established by President Johnson, but was denied admission. He was elected sena-- tor in 1879 and took his seat March 18, 1879, and was re-elected in 1885 and 1891.
He has been in the United States senate for eighteen years, and is one of the strongest anti-corporationists in the state of Florida.