Edmund Jennings Randolph
ABOUT EDMUND JENNINGS RANDOLPH
Virginia-born attorney and politician who served as 1st U.S. Attorney General and was also 2nd U.S. Secretary of State under President George Washington .
He was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, and he attended the College of William and Mary before serving in the Continental Army as an aide to General George Washington.
He served as a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress from 1779-1782.
He married Elizabeth Nicholas, with whom he had six children. His son, Peyton Randolph , followed in the family political tradition by becoming Governor of Virginia in 1811.
He and Patrick Henry both served as Governor of Virginia in the late Eighteenth Century.
