Samuel Walker McCall

Samuel Walker McCall
Portrait by unknown artist, published 1916
47th Governor of Massachusetts
In office January 6, 1916 – January 2, 1919
Lieutenant	Calvin Coolidge
Preceded by	David I. Walsh
Succeeded by	Calvin Coolidge
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 8th district
In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1913
Preceded by	Moses T. Stevens
Succeeded by	Frederick S. Deitrick
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office 1889–1892
Personal details
Born	February 28, 1851 East Providence Township, Pennsylvania
Died	November 4, 1923 (aged 72) Winchester, Massachusetts
Resting place	Wildwood Cemetery
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Dartmouth College

Samuel Walker McCall (February 28, 1851 – November 4, 1923) was a Republican lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. 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 (1916–19). He was a moderately progressive Republican who sought to counteract the influence of money in politics.

Born in Pennsylvania and educated at Dartmouth, he settled in Massachusetts, where he entered local politics on a progressive reform agenda. Elected to Congress, he continued his reform activities, and opposed annexation of The Philippines. He did not join the Progressive Party, but was insufficiently conservative for state party leaders, who denied him election to the United States Senate on two occasions. As governor, he directed the state's actions during World War I, and orchestrated early aid to Halifax, Nova Scotia following a devastating munitions ship explosion there in 1917.

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. At a young age, the family moved to an undeveloped frontier area of northern Illinois, where McCall spent much of his childhood. McCall's father speculated in real estate and owned a stove factory, which was closed by financial reverses of the Panic of 1857. 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.