Background
Samuel Walker McCall was born in East Providence Township, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1851, to Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, the sixth of eleven children.
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Samuel Walker McCall was born in East Providence Township, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1851, to Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, the sixth of eleven children.
McCall graduated from New Hampton Academy in 1870 and subsequently attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and graduated Phi Beta Kappa near the top of his class.
At a young age, the family moved to an undeveloped frontier area of northern Illinois, where McCall spent much of his childhood. His education began at the Mount Carroll Seminary (now Shimer College) in Mount Carroll from 1864 to 1866, when that school closed to male students. McCall"s parents then sent him east to the New Hampton Academy in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on the recommendation of a neighbor.
After graduating, McCall moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he studied law and gained admission to the Massachusetts Bar.
He then opened a law practice in Boston, Massachusetts with a Dartmouth classmate, which he maintained for most of his life. In 1888, he was briefly editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser.
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 4, 1913).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections Number.
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.
He was for twenty years (1893-1913) a member of the United States House of Representatives, and the 47th Governor of Massachusetts, serving three one-year terms (1916-1919). McCall was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1888, serving three terms between 1889 and 1892.