Benjamin Franklin Randolph
(1808–1871)
BIRTH
July 14, 1808
PLACE
DEATH
February 18, 1871
PLACE
FAMILY
SISTER
Martha Jefferson
(1748-1782)
SISTER
Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead
(1791-1826)
BROTHER
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
(1792-1875)
SISTER
Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
(1796-1876)
SISTER
Cornelia Jefferson Randolph
(1799-1871)
SISTER
Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist
(1801-1882)
SISTER
Mary Jefferson Randolph
(1803-1876)
BROTHER
James Madison Randolph
(1806-1834)
BROTHER
Meriwether Lewis Randolph
(1810-1837)
SISTER
Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham
(1814-1887)
BROTHER
George Wythe Randolph
(1818-1867)
CHILDREN
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
(1768-1828)
CHILDREN
Patsy Jefferson Randolph
(1772-1836)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Ben
POLITICAL VIEWS
CONFEDERATE SUPPORTER, SECESSION ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA JEFFERSON SOCIETY MEMBER
AWARDS
Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1808–1871) was Thomas Jefferson’s grandson, a Virginia physician, farmer and state senator. He studied medicine at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1831. He married Sally Champe Carter and built the estate later called Round Top. A magistrate from 1846 and senator in 1853–1856, he supported secession and the Confederacy. The master’s 1826 death is Jefferson’s date; Monticello records Randolph’s later career and 1871 death.
EARLY LIFE
Benjamin Franklin Randolph was born on Jul 14, 1808. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Benjamin Franklin Randolph with work or public activity as a doctor, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Benjamin Franklin Randolph was Thomas Jefferson’s grandson, a Virginia physician, farmer and state senator. A magistrate from 1846 and senator in 1853–1856, he supported secession and the Confederacy. Benjamin Franklin Randolph died on Jul 4, 1826. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA 22902
GRAVE
MUSEUM
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA 22902
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1808–1871), Jefferson’s physician grandson, distinct from the African American Reconstruction senator of the same name. These are family biographies and related primary papers. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America — Christa Dierksheide. [Collective family biography] Find on Amazon
2. The Randolphs of Virginia — Jonathan Daniels. [Family biographical history] Find on Amazon
3. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson — Sarah N. Randolph. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
4. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family — Annette Gordon-Reed. [Related family biography and slavery history] Find on Amazon
5. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series — J. Jefferson Looney (editor). [Related grandfather’s primary correspondence; series counted once] Find on Amazon
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