Thomas Jefferson Randolph was Jefferson’s eldest grandson, a Virginia planter and legislator. As executor he struggled to settle his grandfather’s debts, selling Monticello and its enslaved residents. In the House of Delegates he supported gradual emancipation coupled with deportation. He would resign for health reasons but win election to the Virginia Senate for the remaining years of the war, though he would late in the war run the federal blockade in order to seek medical treatment, visiting spas in England and Europe before returning in 1866. Continuing his activity in politics after the war, Randolph served as the temporary chairman of the 1872 Democratic National Convention. He chaired the Democratic National Convention in 1872. Randolph served six terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and served on the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors. Randolph survived his wife by several years. He died at Edgehill on October 7, 1875, following a carriage accident, and was buried beside her in the Monticello family graveyard. His Tufton estate is now part of Monticello, and hosts the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants.