
John Randolph Sr
BIRTH
1693
Williamsburg, Virginia
DEATH
March 15, 1737
Williamsburg, Virginia
FAMILY
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Randolph, John
(1693-1737)
Sir John Randolph was a Williamsburg lawyer, planter, speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and attorney general of the colony. A leading member of the Randolph family, he helped establish the legal and political culture inherited by Virginia’s Revolutionary statesmen.
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The exact date and place of John Randolph Sr’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 John Randolph Sr with work or public activity as a lawyer. 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. John Randolph Sr died on Mar 15, 1737 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
















