Article 8 of the edict allowed Jews to own land and take up municipal and university posts.
He vacated the municipal post when he took his state Senate seat late in 1994.
Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well.
And not all the elected officials who had been invited hold municipal or state posts.
He is listed as having had "almost all municipal posts" in Åsnes, and was a member of the municipal council from 1904 to 1922.
He resigned his municipal post, after upwards of six years' service, early in 1712.
In Rindalen he held "nearly all the municipal posts eligible with his position as bailiff".
He settled in Lincoln, where he practiced law and took on a variety of municipal posts.
In 1923, after he was removed from the municipal post, he worked as a lawyer in Bihać.
He was appointed to important municipal posts, eventually becoming burgomaster.