Randolph, Peyton Edmund
(1779-1828)
Peyton Edmund Randolph was a Virginia lawyer and the son of Revolutionary statesman Edmund Randolph. He served as clerk of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and later as acting governor of Virginia in 1811 and 1812.
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The exact date and place of Peyton Edmund 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 Peyton Edmund Randolph with work or public activity as a lawyer, 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. Peyton Edmund Randolph died on Dec 26, 1828 in Richmond, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.















