Samuel W. McCall

Infobox Governor
name=Samuel Walker McCall


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order=47th
office= Governor of Massachusetts
term_start= January 6, 1916
term_end= January 2, 1919
lieutenant= Calvin Coolidge
predecessor= David I. Walsh
successor= Calvin Coolidge
birth_date= birth date|1851|10|28|mf=y
birth_place= East Providence Township, Pennsylvania
death_date= death date and age|1923|8|4|1851|10|28|mf=y
death_place= Winchester, Massachusetts
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party= Republican
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Samuel Walker McCall (February 28, 1851 – November 4, 1923) was a member of the United States House of Representatives, and Governor of Massachusetts. He was born in East Providence Township, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1851. He spent his early life in Illinois and attended the Mount Carroll (Ill.) Seminary. McCall graduated from New Hampton Academy and from Dartmouth College. He studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Worcester, and later in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1888, 1900, and 1916. McCall was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1913). He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 3 (Fifty-fourth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1912, and resumed the practice of law in Boston.

He was elected Governor of Massachusetts 1916-1918. After retiring from elected office, he engaged in literary pursuits and died in Winchester on November 4, 1923. His interment was in Wildwood Cemetery.

External links

*CongBio|M000305
* [http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/smccall.htm Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Biography]