Edmund Jennings Randolph

Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753, Williamsburg, Virginia [USA] - September 12, 1813, Clark County, Virginia) played an important role in drafting and approving the US Constitution. He served as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of George Washington and later served as Secretary of State.

After attending William and Mary University, Randolph learned the law at his father's office. And it was a king's lawyer in the Virginia colony. A revolutionary approach in the United States caused the family to divide: Father, his wife and daughter went to England in 1775, and Edmund joined his rebellious colonists in his fate It was.

A young lawyer, serving as General Assistant to Washington in Boston's British siege (1776), returned to Virginia and took care of his uncle, Peyton Randolph's legacy. He was elected as a constitutional treaty of the state of Virginia in 1776, and served as a committee that enacted the Bill of Rights and State Constitution. Virginia State Council elected him the state attorney general, and from 1779 to 198 he served as the head of the continental conference.

In 1786, Randolph led the delegation of Virginia to the Annapolis Conference, and in the same year he was elected governor of Virginia. As representative of the American Constitutional Council (1787), he proposed an influential Virginia plan and served as a detailed committee to prepare the first draft of the proposed Constitution. However, he did not sign the final draft as he wanted more protection of national and individual rights. However, at the Virginia Games in 1788, he took advantage of his influence to achieve state ratification of the Constitution.

After President Washington took office in 1789, he appointed Randolph, who was working on most of Washington 's personal legal work as a US attorney general. After Thomas Jefferson resigned as Secretary of State in December 1793, Randolph was chosen to make him successful. At that time, Britain and France were in a state of war, and America strongly supported both enemies, but it is very difficult for Randolph to lead the middle road. He is considering a Jay treaty with Britain (1794), but he fulfilled a subtle task of maintaining friendly relations with France. He also opened the way for the signing of the (1795) Pinckney Treaty (or San Lorenzo Treaty) with Spain, which allows for free navigation of the Mississippi River.

Randolph's government service ended with diplomatic means intercepted by the French Minister of the Philadelphia and accused of accepting French money in exchange for the influence of the US government on Britain. The allegation was not confirmed, but Randolph resigned on August 19, 1795. He returned to Virginia and resumed his business as a lawyer and in 1807 he served as a senior lawyer in Aelon Bar's trial.

On 2 January 1794, Edmund Jennings Randolph became Secretary of State on behalf of Thomas Jefferson. Like Jefferson, Randolph resigned. On August 20, 1795, Randolph departed August 20, 1795 after maintaining a neutral policy of war between the British and Revolutionary France and the Federalists' corruption allegation in the Presidential Cabinet of George Washington. Randolph was born in a large family in Virginia. He graduated from William & Mary University, studied law with his father John and his uncle Peyton, joined the Virginia bar and started practicing in Williamsburg. His father returned to the UK and responded to the American Revolutionary War, but Randolph served as Advisor of General George Washington in 1775.

Randolph was born in the influential Randolph family of Williamsburg, Virginia on August 10, 1753. He received education at William and Mary University. After graduation, he began to read the law with his father John Randolph and his uncle Peyton Randolph. Even if the American Revolution began in 1775, Randolph's father returned to the UK as a royalist and Edmund Randolph remained in America where he joined the continent as George Washington's aide. In October 1775, when my uncle's Peyton Randolph died, Randolph returned to Virginia as an executor of heritage and was elected as representative of the Fourth Virginia Treaty. He will serve as the mayor of Williamsburg and then serve as the first US Attorney General under the newly formed government.