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Edmund Randolph, in honor of whom the county was named, was born at
Williamsburg, Virginia. He was of distinguished lineage. He was the son of John
Randolph, the Attorney-General of the colony, and the grandson of Sir John
Randolph, who filled the same office and received the honor of knighthood for
services to the Crown, His mother was Ariana, daughter of Edmund Jennings,
Attorney-General of Maryland and Virginia. Educated at William and Mary College,
Edmund Randolph entered on the profession of law. In 1775, he entered the
Continental Army, for which he was disinherited by his father, who remained
loyal to the Crown. By the Virginia Convention of 1776, he was appointed first
Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, and in 1779, he was elected a member of
the Continental Congress. In 1786, he became Governor of the State, and in 1787,
was a member of the body which framed the Federal Constitution, and the next
year a member of the Virginia Convention which ratified that compact. In 1790,
he was appointed first Attorney-General of the United States, and in 1794,
succeeded Jefferson as Secretary of State. In 1784, he was appointed Deputy
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
of Virginia, and in 1786, was elected Grand Master of the same. His name is
masonically perpetuated in that of the Richmond Randolph Lodge, No. 19,
chartered October 19, 1787.

Additional Comments:
From Randolph County section of History of West Virginia, 1889.

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