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9. Elizabeth Randolph, b. at Turkey Island 1695, youngest child of Col. William Randolph and Mary, née Isham, Married (1711) Richard Bland, of Jordan's Point on James River. She was his second wife and d. Jan. 22, 1720. Among other children they had:
Mary Bland, b. 1712. Married (1728) Henry Lee, of Lee Hall. Their third son and fourth child was Henry Lee, Jr., b. 1733. Married (1755) Lucy Grymes (Washington's "Lowland Beauty"). Their son was Gen. "Light Horse" Harry Lee, father of the illustrious Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Richard Bland, Jr., of Jordan's Point on James River, was member of the House of Burgesses; was in the Convention of 1775, and member of the first American Congress at Philadelphia. He married Anne Poythress.
Theodoric Bland, youngest child of Richard Bland, of Jordan's Point, and Elizabeth, née Randolph, b. 1720, just before his mother died.
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John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833) — of Virginia. Born in Cawsons, Prince George County, Va., June 2, 1773. Nephew of Theodorick Bland; second cousin of Edmund Jenings Randolph; cousin of John Marshall; half-brother of Henry St. George Tucker. U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1799-1813, 1815-17, 1819-25, 1827-29, 1833 (at-large 1799-1807, 15th District 1807-13, 16th District 1815-17, 1819-21, 5th District 1821-25, 1827-29, 1833); died in office 1833; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1825-27; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1830. Died May 24, 1833. Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.; reinterment at Hollywood Cemetery.
See also: congressional biography.
RANDOLPH, John, (1773 - 1833)

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Bibliography

American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Adams, Henry. John Randolph. 1882. Reprint of 1898 ed. New York: Chelsea House, 1981; Dawidoff, Robert. The Education of John Randolph. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1979.

Senate Years of Service: 1825-1827
Party: Jacksonian

RANDOLPH, John, (nephew of Theodorick Bland and Thomas Tudor Tucker, half brother of Henry St. George Tucker), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Cawsons, Prince George County, Va., June 2, 1773; known as John Randolph of Roanoke to distinguish him from kinsmen; studied under private tutors, at private schools, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and Columbia College, New York City; studied law in Philadelphia, Pa., but never practiced; engaged in several duels; elected to the Sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1813); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in January 1804 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Judge John Pickering, and in December of the same year against Supreme Court Justice Samuel; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Seventh through Ninth Congresses); elected to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was not a candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress; elected to the Sixteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1819, until his resignation, effective December 26, 1825; appointed to the United States Senate on December 8, 1825, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1821, caused by the resignation of James Barbour; served from December 26, 1825, to March 3, 1827; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Senate in 1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); was not a candidate for reelection to the Twenty-first Congress; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Twentieth Congress); member of the Virginia constitutional convention at Richmond in 1829; appointed United States Minister to Russia by President Andrew Jackson and served from May to September, 1830, when he resigned; elected to the Twenty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1833, until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1833; interment at his residence, ‘Roanoke,’ in Charlotte County, Va.; reinterment at ’Hollywood,’ Richmond, Va.