Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.

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Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (1768-1828) was a Governor of Virginia.

He was born at “Tuckahoe,” in Goochland County, Virginia, on October 1, 1768. His sisters included Mary Randolph, author of The Virginia House-Wife (1824), and Virginia Randolph Cary, author of Letters on Female Character (1828). He received his early education from private teachers; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1785-1788.

In 1790, Randolph married Martha Washington Jefferson, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. They were parents to twelve children:

• Anne Cary Randolph (1791 - 1826).
• Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792 - 1875).
• Ellen Wayles Randolph (1794 - 1795).
• Ellen Wayles Randolph (1796 - 1876). Named after deceased older sister.
• Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (1799 - 1871).
• Virginia Jefferson Randolph (1801 - 1882).
• Mary Jefferson Randolph (1803 - 1876).
• James Madison Randolph (1806 - 1834).
• Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1808 - 1871).
• Meriwether Lewis Randolph (1810 - 1837).
• Septimia Anne Randolph (1814 - 1887).
• George Wythe Randolph (1816 - 1867).

Thomas served in the State senate in 1793 and 1794; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); colonel of the Twentieth Infantry during the War of 1812; member of the State house of delegates, 1819, 1820, and 1823-1825; Governor of Virginia, 1819-1822, He was the first son-in-law of a Virginia Governor to become governor himself; died at "Monticello," the home of Thomas Jefferson, his father-in-law, on June 20, 1828; interment in the family burial ground.

He was a direct descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.

[edit] External links

• biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website
• Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. at Find A Grave

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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