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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsSamuel Walker McCALL
(1851-1923)
McCALL, Samuel Walker, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in East Providence, Bedford
County, Pa., February 28, 1851; spent his early life in Illinois;
attended the Mount Carroll (Ill.) Seminary; was graduated from New
Hampton (N.H.) Academy in 1870 and from Dartmouth College, Hanover,
N.H., in 1874; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and
practiced in Worcester, Mass., and later in Boston, Mass.; editor
of the Boston Daily Advertiser; member of the Massachusetts house
of representatives in 1888, 1889, and 1892; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1888, 1900, and 1916; elected as
a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the nine succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1913); chairman, Committee on
Elections No. 3 (Fifty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1912; resumed the practice of law in Boston;
Governor of Massachusetts 1916-1918; engaged in literary pursuits;
died in Winchester, Mass., November 4, 1923; interment in Wildwood
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Evans, Lawrence, B. Samuel W. McCall: Governor of
Massachusetts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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