A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet

Richard Keith Call (1792-1862)

Third territorial governor: March 16, 1836 to December 2, 1839

Fifth territorial governor: March 19, 1841 to August 11, 1844

First Lady: Mary Letitia Kirkman Call

Florida Photographic Collection:

• Images related to Richard Keith Call.
  • Search Call, R. K. (Richard Keith), 1792-1862 in the Florida Photographic Collection.

Online Collections:

• Call Family and Brevard Family Papers
  This collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of Richard Keith Call, territorial governor of Florida, and his family. Particularly significant among the Call papers is correspondence between Richard Keith Call and Andrew Jackson.

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

• RG 101 Territorial and State Governors (1820-1929)
  • S 32 Territorial and State Governors letterbooks, 1836-1909
  • S 177 Territorial Governors correspondence, 1820-1845
• RG 1025 National Archives Microfilm Publications
  • S 976 Records of special agents for securing the Florida archives, 1799-1836
  • S1108 Territorial papers of the United States relating to the Territory of Florida, 1821-1845
• RG 900000 Manuscripts
  • M73-10 Collection, 1844-1939
  • M82-1 Correspondence, 1791-1794, 1825-1849
  • M82-4 Journal, 1861
  • M84-16 Correspondence, 1820-1860
  • M92-1 Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925
  • N2001-3 Letter regarding Andrew Jackson, 1824

Other Repositories:

• Call Letter, Strozier Library, Florida State University.
• Papers, PK Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida.
• Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.

Published Materials :

• Doherty, Herbert J. Richard Keith Call, Southern Unionist. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961.
• ———. “Richard K. Call vs. The Federal Government on the Seminole War.” Florida Historical Quarterly 31 (January 1953): 163-80.
• Halsell, Willie D. “Early Letters From R.K. Call.” Florida Historical Quarterly 39 (January 1961): 266-9.

Related Links:

• Richard Keith Call, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Richard Keith Call, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.