• General Notes

  John Randolph [RA.5.3] (26 June 1742 - 28 Oct. 1775) of “Mattoax,” married Frances Bland, daughter of Theodorick Bland and Frances Bolling, 9 March 1769.
  Randolph’s will, which Elizabeth and John Banister witnessed, is in Chesterfield County naming three sons (will dated 25 July 1774,  recorded 23 Oct. 1775 ). Their children were the following. 
  4› Richard Randolph [RA.5.3.1] (9 Mar. 1770 - 16 June 1796 ) of “Bizarre” married Judith Randolph in Henrico County 31 December 1789.  His will freed 400 slaves and directed they be established on their own lan
  4› Theodorick Bland Randolph [RA.5.3.2] (22 Jan. 1771 - 14 Feb. 1792
  4› John Randolph [RA.5.3.3] (2 June 1773 - 24 May 1833) of “Roanoke,” was U.S. congressman (1799-1813, 1819-25, 1827-33), senator (1825-27).  Randolph County, Georgia, is named for John Randolph. Like his brother Richard, he freed his slaves upon his death. 
  To learn more about John Randolph, read his biography at Congress.gov 
  
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  RANDOLPH, John, (1773 - 1833)
  
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  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.
  
  
  
  
  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.
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  American beacon and Norfolk and Portsmouth daily advertiser (Norfolk, Va. : 1827) 
  Title    Died- On Thursday, June 29, Nathaniel Mac.on, in his 83d year, for many years a member of Congress. John Randolph had left a bequest to him (Warrenton, NC, Reporter) 
  Publication    Thursday, July 6, 1837. 
  Gen. note    From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. 
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Details of John's family with Frances Bland