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    Edmund Randolph

    American Founding Father and politician (–)

    For Edmund Randolph (–), grandson of Edmund Jennings Randolph, see Edmund Randolph (ante bellum jurist).

    Edmund Randolph

    Portrait by Casimir Gregory Stapko

    In office
    January 2, &#;– August 20,
    PresidentGeorge Washington
    Preceded byThomas Jefferson
    Succeeded byTimothy Pickering
    In office
    September 26, &#;– January 26,
    PresidentGeorge Washington
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byWilliam Bradford
    In office
    December 1, &#;– December 1,
    Preceded byPatrick Henry
    Succeeded byBeverley Randolph
    In office
    July 4, &#;– November 30,
    Preceded byJohn Randolph (for Colonial Virginia)
    Succeeded byJames Innes
    Born

    Edmund Jennings Randolph


    ()August 10,
    Williamsburg, Virginia, British America
    DiedSeptember 12, () (aged&#;60)
    Millwood, Virginia, U.S.
    Political partyFederalist
    Spouse

    Elizabeth Nicholas

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    Edmund Jenings Randolph was born in Williamsburg, Virginia on August 10, , to Ariana Jenings () of Annapolis, MD and John Randolph (c. - ) of Williamsburg. Randolph attended the College of William & Mary in and studied to become a Virginia attorney under his father who was a barrister and Attorney General of Virginia from   On the eve of the American Revolution, Edmund and his father followed different political paths. John Randolph took his wife and two daughters to England in , earning him the title "John the Tory".3. That same year Edmund served as an aide-de-camp to General Washington, but his service was cut short due to the need to assist his aunt, Elizabeth Randolph, upon the death of his Uncle Peyton Randolph.

    He attended the convention that adopted Virginia's first state constitution in , and was appointed the Commonwealth of Virginia's first Attorney General.

    In , Randolph married Elizabeth Nicholas (), daughter of Virginia Colony and State Treasurer Robert Carte

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    Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Edmund Jennings Randolph (–)

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    Introduction

    Edmund Jennings Randolph succeeded Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State on January 2, Like Jefferson, Randolph resigned from office. Randolph departed on August 20, , following a struggle to maintain a policy of neutrality in the war between Great Britain and Revolutionary France and accusations of corruption by the Federalists in President George Washington’s cabinet.

    Edmund Randolph, Second sekreterare of State

    Rise to Prominence

    Randolph was born into a leading Virginia family. He graduated from the College of William & Mary, studied lag with his father John and his Uncle Peyton, joined the Virginia dryckesställe, and began practicing lag in Williamsburg. Whereas his father reacted to the American Revolution by returning to Great Britain, Randolph served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington in

    After returning to Virginia