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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2013- 5
Creator: Florida Historical Society.
Title, Dates: Richard Keith Call collection, 1819-1862.
Amount: 123.87 gigabytes
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Terms Governing Use: ***The Florida Historical Society must be credited as the custodian of the original records in any use of the records by the State Archives of Florida.
Biographical/Historical:     Richard Keith Call was the third and fifth territorial governor of Florida, from 1836 to 1839 and from 1841 to 1844. Born in Virginia in 1792, he first came to Florida in 1814 as the personal aide of General Andrew Jackson and returned with him to Pensacola in 1821 to help set up Florida's territorial government. The next year, he started a law practice there. Prior to his first term as territorial governor, Call served in various political capacities, including as Receiver of the West Florida Land Office, member of the Legislative Council of the territory, and Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.

    During Call's first term as territorial governor of Florida, he was also Brigadier General of the West Florida Militia and led forces against the Seminoles in the Second and Third Battles of Wahoo Swamp during the Second Seminole War. In December 1839, President Martin Van Buren removed Call as governor following a dispute with Federal authorities over their assistance during the war. However, President William Henry Harrison appointed him territorial governor for a second term beginning in 1841. When Florida became a state in 1845, Call ran for governor, but was defeated.

    Call built an estate in Tallahassee, called "The Grove," in the 1830s. The structure, now on the National Register of Historic Places, later became the home of another governor, LeRoy Collins, and his wife Mary Call Collins, a descendant of Governor Call. Richard Keith Call died at The Grove on September 14, 1862.
Summary:     This collection contains electronic copies of official and personal correspondence and other papers regarding Florida history collected by Richard Keith Call and his daughter Ellen Call Long; and a journal of Richard Keith Call comprising family papers possibly assembled and transcribed by Ellen Call Long, accompanied by her narrative history.
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Additional Physical Form: This collection has been digitized and is available on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/historical_records/rkcall/
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Location of Originals/Duplicates: Florida Historical Society 435 Brevard Avenue Cocoa, Florida 32922 FHS owns the paper originals of this electronic collection. FHS loaned the paper originals to the Archives for digitization in 2013.
Associated Materials: For more materials related to the Call family, see Collection M82-4, Richard Keith Call Journal, 1861 (0.25 cubic foot) and Collection M92-1, Call and Brevard Family Papers, 1788-1925 (6 cubic feet).
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Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/historical_records/rkcall/
Subject Access Fields: Call, R.K. 1791-1862 (Richard Keith),
Seminole Indians Wars
Letters. aat
Diaries. aat
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