Rhydon Mays Call was an American lawyer and judge.
Background
Call was born in Fernandina, Florida, to George William and Sarah (Stark) Call. His father was a lawyer (brother of Florida United States Senator Wilkinson Call) who served in the 2d Florida Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines.
Education
Bachelor of Laws, Washington and Lee University, 1878.
Career
Rhydon Call"s mother was the daughter of Rydon G. Mays, an Edgefield, South Carolina physician and planter. Florida governor Richard Keith Call was Rhydon Call"s great uncle. He graduated from the Washington and Lee University with a Bachelor of Laws in 1878.In July 1878 he was admitted to the bar in Virginia.
Call was in private practice in Jacksonville from 1881 to 1893.
He served as a judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit from June 1893 to 1913. President Woodrow Wilson nominated Call on March 28, 1913, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, to the seat vacated by John Moses Cheney.
Officially nominated on April 12, 1913, Call was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 24, 1913, and received commission on April 24, 1913. Call served on the court until his death in 1927.
He is interred at Saint Nicholas Cemetery in Jacksonville.
Achievements
Religion
During the second coming of Christ, the God will sit in judgment and divide humanity between the saved and the lost and will sit in judgment of the believers, rewarding them for things done while alive.