Richard Keith Call (October 24, 1792 – September 14, 1862) was an American attorney, politician, and enslaver who served as the 3rd and 5th territorial governor of Florida.

[1] Call was also a Southern Unionist opposed to Florida's declared secession during the American Civil War.

Shortly after 1800, his widowed mother brought her four surviving children and five enslaved people across the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky.

[4] She eventually settled on land owned by her brother Senator David Walker in Russellville, Kentucky, where Call spent most of his remaining childhood.

He returned with General Jackson in 1821 to establish the territorial government after the United States acquired Florida from Spain by the Adams-Onís Treaty.

[3] Call was a delegate to the 1856 Know Nothing convention in Philadelphia but walked out over the North vs. South split over slavery (demanding that Section 12 in support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act be restored).

President Martin Van Buren replaced him as governor with Robert R. Reid on December 2, 1839, following a dispute with Federal authorities over their assistance during the war.

In the 1840 presidential campaign, Call crossed party lines to assist Whig William Henry Harrison, who won and appointed him again as governor of Florida.

He worked to minimize the financial problems that Florida suffered due to bank failures and a national business depression.