James Madison Randolph

(1806-1834)

BIRTH

1806

PLACE

DEATH

1834

PLACE

FAMILY

FATHER

Thomas Mann Randolph

(1768-1828)

SISTER

Martha Jefferson

(1748-1782)

BROTHER

Thomas Jefferson Randolph

(1792-1875)

SISTER

Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge

(1796-1876)

SISTER

Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist

(1801-1882)

SISTER

Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham

(1814-1887)

CHILDREN

Patsy Jefferson Randolph

(1772-1836)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS

James Madison Randolph (1806–1834) was Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph’s son and Thomas Jefferson’s grandson. Born at the President’s House during a family visit, he studied at home and in Albemarle schools, then joined the University of Virginia’s first classes in 1825. He never married and ran a small family farm until it had to be sold. He died aged twenty-eight after illness at his brother’s Tufton estate. Family letters record his financial decline.

FARMER

EARLY LIFE

The exact date and place of James Madison Randolph’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 James Madison Randolph with work or public activity as a farmer. 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

James Madison Randolph died in 1834. James Madison Randolph was Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph’s son and Thomas Jefferson’s grandson. Born at the President’s House during a family visit, he studied at home and in Albemarle schools, then joined the University of Virginia’s first classes in 1825. He never married and ran a small family farm until it had to be sold. He died aged twenty-eight after illness at his brother’s Tufton estate. Family letters record his financial decline. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.

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