RANDOLPH
RANDOLPH
1858-59. In 1861 as a member of the first city-
troop of Pluladeliihia. he went to the front for
three months, and in 1863, upon Lee's invasion of
Pennsjlvania, he again served as captain of a
company, being promoted provost-marslial dur-
ing the battle of Gettysburg. He was the Demo-
cratic representative from the third district of
Pennsylvania in tiie 38th-51st congresses, 1863-90,
and during the 43d congress, wlien the force bill
was introduced, he led the opposition and suc-
ceeded in preventing its passage. He succeeded
Miciiael C. Kerr as sj)eaker of the house in 1875,
and wjis re-elected by the 45tli and 46th congresses,
1877-81. He was married to a daughter of Gen.
Aaron Ward of Sing Sing, N.Y. He died in
Washington. D.C.. April 12. 1890.
RANDOLPH, Alfred Magill, first bishop of Southern Virginia and 132d in succession in the American episcopate, was born at "The Mead- ows," the estate of John Magill near Winchester, Va., Aug. 31. 18-36 ; son of Robert Lee and Mary Buckner Thruston (Magill) Randolph ; grandson of Col. Robert and Eliza (Carter) Randolph and of Col. Charles and Mary (Thruston) Magill, and a descendant of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Va.. who came from Warwickshire, Eng- land, arriving in Jamestown, Va., in 1674. He was graduated from William and Mary college, A.B., 18."35, A.M., 1858, andfrom the Virginia The- ological seminary in 1858 ; was admitted to the diaconate in 1858 and advanced to the priesthood in 1860. He was married. April 27, 1859, to Sallie Griffith, daughter of Dr. William and Eliza (Grif- fith) Hoxton of Alexandria, Va., and great-grand- daughter of the Rev. Dr. David Griffith (q.v.). He was the rector of St. George's, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862-63 ; chaplain in the Confederate army, 1862-65 ; rector of Christ church, Alexandria, Va., 1866-67 ; of Emanuel church, Baltimore, Md., 1867-83, and was elected bishop coadjutor of Virginia in 1S83. He was consecrated, Oct. 21, 1883, by Bishops Williams, Howe, Dudley, Perry, Alexander Burgess and Peterkin. Upon the divi- sion of the diocese of Virginia in 1892 he became the first bishop of the diocese of Southern Virginia and made Norfolk the see city. He received the degree of D.D. from William and Mary college in 1876 ; that of LL.D. from Washington and Lee university in 1887 and that of D.C.L. from the University of the South in 1902.
RANDOLPH, Beverly, governor of Virginia, was born in Chatsworth, Henrico county, Va., in 1754 ; son of Col. Peter and Lucy (Boiling) Ran- dolph. His father was surveyor of customs of North America in 1749 and a member of the Vir- ginia house of burgesses for many years. He was graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1771, and during the Revolution served as a member of the general assembly of Virginia and
upheld the patriot cause. He was president of
the executive council of Virginia, 1787-88, and
succeeded Edmund Randolph as governor of the
state, serving, 1788-81. He was appointed a visi-
tor of the College of William antl Mary in 1784.
He died at Green Creek. Cumberland, Va., in 1797.
RANDOLPH, Edmund (Jennings), cabinet
officer, was born in Williamslnng. Va.. Aug. 10,
1753 ; son of John Randolph (1727-1784) king's
attorney, 1766-75. He was graduated at the Col-
lege of William and Mary, and studied law with
his father. He remained in Virginia when his
father fled to England in 1775, and Washington
made him a member of his own family, and his
aide-de-camp, Aug. 15, 1775. On the sudden
death of his uncle Peyton he returned to Wil-
liamsburg to care for the estate, and was married
to a daughter of R. C. Nicholas. He was a
member of the committee of 1776, where he
assisted in passing the bill of rights, and in fram-
ing the constitution for Virginia. He was elected
attorney-general of the state, under the new
constitution, and was also mayor of Williams-
burg. He was a delegate to the Continental
congress, 1779-82, where he had a place in the
committee on foreign affairs. He resigned his
seat in 1782, and devoted himself to the care of
his estate inherited from his uncle, Peyton
Randolph, which was subject to the debts of his
father who died in England in 1783, which debts
he paid out of his practice of the law. He was -
appointed a commissioner from Virginia to the
Annopolis convention, and as a member of that
body urged the calling by congress of a constitu-
tional convention. He was governor of Virginia,
1786-88, and leader of the Virginia delegation to
the constitutional convention of 1787, when he
introduced the general plan of the instrument as
had been agreed upon, and prepared another plan
which he did not introduce, but which was
found among the papers of George Mason in 1887,
and brought to light by M. D. Conway. He op-
posed a single executive, preferring an executive
commission ; opposed re-elegibility of the Pres-
ident, and his holding pardoning power, the
vice-presidential office, and states having two
senators irrespective of their population ; and
favored the giving of powers to the Federal gov-
ernment sufficient to prevent any state from
carrying out a law declared by the supreme
court to be unconstitutional. It was this motion
that eliminated the word "slavery" from the
constitution. He refused to sign the instrument
as prepared, unless a second national convention
should act on it after it had been discussed by
the people. In the Virginia convention of 1788,
however, he advocated its ratification as necessary
to union, claiming that by so doing Virginia
could secure needed amendments. The clatise of
