Randolph, John, 1773-1833

Randolph served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1825, 1827-1829), the U.S. Senate (1825-1827), the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1829-1830), and as Minister to Russia (1830-1831).

U. S. Congressman from Virginia.

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote from his home in Richmond, Va. to a Virginia colleague, John Randolph of Roanoke, who was serving in Congress at the time. Randolph and William Leigh, judge of the circuit court in Halifax Co., Va., were intimate friends.

Diplomat and U.S. senator and representative from Virginia.

U.S. representative from Virginia.

American statesman and orator.

John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833) was serving in Congress at the time of this letter. Thomas Abthorpe Cooper (1776-1849) was an actor and theatrical manager in New York City.

George Hannah (1780-1870) was a planter, sportsman, and captain of the Charlotte County Dragoons during the War of 1812.

Legislator of "Roanoke," Charlotte County, Va.

John Randolph of Roanoke, Va. was a prominent statesman and orator. At the time the letters were written, Randolph has retired to his home in Roanoke. Key was practicing law in Georgetown.

Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837) served as speaker of the House of Representatives, 1801-07. The North Carolinian opposed the recharter of the U. S. Bank in 1811, voted against protective tariffs, and opposed internal improvements. He lost the House speakership in 1811 to Henry Clay.

William Leigh was a judge of the circuit court in Halifax County, Virginia. He was an intimate friend of John Randolph and co-executor of his estate.

John Randolph (of Roanoke) was a Virginia statesman and orator who served in Congress intermittantly from 1799 until his death in 1833. The Papers of Randolph of Roanoke, by William E. Stokes, Jr., and Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., 1950, includes 31 of these letters.

American statesman.

John St. George Randolph (1792-c. 1865), a deaf-mute, was sent at age 13 to Thomas Braidwood's school for deaf-mutes for treatment. In 1814 he was spurned by a cousin whom he expected to marry. This disappointment distressed him to the extent of becoming a "frantic maniac" and a future in and out of primitive mental institutions in Philadelphia and Baltimore. At 40, St. George went to live with his court-appointed guardian, Wyatt Cardwell, at Charlotte Court House where he remained for the rest of his life. See Jonathan Daniels, "The Randolphs of Virginia" (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972) for biographical information on the family.

John Randolph of Roanoke, Va. (1773-1833), was a statesman and orator. This letter was written in between terms served in the U.S. Congress.

John Randolph "of Roanoke" was a brilliant Virginia statesman and orator. His letter is to Dr. Charles Landon Carter, a contemporary who later married a Randolph and is buried in Fredericksburg, Va.

Virginia statesman and diplomat, of Roanoke, Va.

U.S. senator; American orator.

Congressional leader from Virginia, spokesman for the "Old Republican" or "Quids" faction of the Democratic-Republican party that wanted to restrict the federal government's roles.

Virginia statesman and diplomat, of Roanoke Island, Va.

Virginia Congressman.

Statesman, orator; best known as John Randolph of Roanoke.

U.S. Congressman from Virginia.

Virginia legislator from Roanoke.

Randolph was a U.S. Senator from Virginia (1825-1827). -- Cambreleng was a U.S. Representative from New York (1821-1829) and Minister to Russia (1840-1841).

In the mid seventeenth century William Randolph had founded what was to become one of the great extended dynastic families of late colonial Virginia, holders of great estates, wealth, and many slaves. He established on estates of their own his seven sons, including William of "Turkey Island"; Sir John Randolph of "Tazewell Hall"; and Richard of "Curles". His sons and two daughters were allied by marriage to outstanding families of Virginia, and among their line of descendants are Thomas Jefferson, Robert Marshall, and Robert E. Lee. William Randolph was among the founders and first trustees of the College of William and Mary, later sending six sons to study there. Represented in this collection are letters and documents of descendants of William Randolph including Beverly Randolph, Edmund Jenings Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Peyton Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, and William B. Randolph.

Virginia senator and congressman.

U.S. Congressman.

American legislator, known as John Randolph of Roanoke, b. Prince George co., Va. He briefly studied law under his cousin Edmund Randolph. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1813, 1815-17, 1819-25, 1827-29), where he became a prominent and feared figure, and in the U.S. Senate (1825-27). After breaking (1805) with President Jefferson on the acquisition of Florida, which he opposed, Randolph lost his leadership in the House. He strongly opposed James Madison and the War of 1812, the second Bank of the United States, the Missouri Compromise, and the tariff measures. From 1820 he was a violent sectionalist. His impassioned denunciations of Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams led (1826) to a duel with Clay. Appointed (1830) by President Jackson minister to Russia, he resigned shortly after his arrival there because of ill health. Following his return he denounced Jackson's proclamation against nullification. An outspoken champion of individual liberty, he staunchly defended the Constitution and states' rights, and his views were influential in the South long after his death. A bizarre figure, Randolph numbered Pocahontas among his forebears. He became more eccentric in his later years and at times suffered from dementia. Chiefly remembered for his epigrammatic wit and caustic tongue, he also possessed a brilliant and scholarly mind and was celebrated as an orator. (Columbia Encyclopedia)

Politician, Charlotte County, Virginia.

Richard Stanford (1767-1816) was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina from 1797 to 1816.

John Randolph (1773-1833), of Roanoke, Virginia, was a brilliant statesman and orator. He served in the U.S. Congress over a period of thirty years.

U.S. Senator. American orator.

Statesman.

John Randolph was born on June 2, 1773, in Prince George County, Virginia. Randolph was educated at Princeton, New Jersey, at Columbia in New York, and at William and Mary College in Virginia. He was a Virginia statesman and an early advocate of the States' Rights doctrine. In 1799, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives for more than twenty years. From 1825 to 1827, he served in the United States Senate. He was a firm believer in states' rights.

Like John Calhoun, he opposed the national bank and protective tariffs, although they disagreed on Western expansion and the War of 1812. He disliked slavery but owned more than 5000 acres of land with hundreds of slaves. Randolph maintained that the federal government had no constitutional right to legislate on the institution of slavery. He lived alone on his plantation on the Little Roanoke River in Charlotte county, Virginia. Randolph died in Philadelphia on May 24, 1833.

John St. George Randolph (1792-c.1865), a deaf-mute was sent at age 13 to Thomas Braidwood's school for deaf-mutes for treatment. In 1814 he was spurned by a cousin whom he expected to marry. This disappointment distressed him to the extent of becoming a "frantic maniac" and having a future in and out of primitive mental institutions in Philadelphia and Baltimore. At 40, St. George went to live with his court-appointed guardian, Wyatt Cardwell, at Charlotte Court House where he remained for the rest of his life.

See Jonathan Daniels, The Randolphs of Virginia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972) for biographical information on the family.