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Senate Years of Service: 1825-1827 Party: Jacksonian
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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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