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See also:RANDOLPH, See also:JOHN (1773–1833) , of See also:Roanoke, See also:American statesman. He was a member of an influential and wealthy Virginian See also:family, and was the third and youngest son of John Randolph of Cawsons, See also:Chesterfield See also:county, where he was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:June 1773. He was a descendant of John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas. His See also:father having died in 1775, his See also:early years were passed under the care of his See also:mother and his stepfather, Mr St See also:George See also:Tucker, from .whom, however, he eventually became estranged, as he did from almost every one with whom he was intimately associated. He attended a school at See also:Williamsburg, See also:Virginia, and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time studied at See also:Princeton and at See also:Columbia; but, although well read in See also:modern See also:works bearing on politics and See also:philosophy, his own statement, " I am an ignorant See also:man, See also:sir," was in other respects not inaccurate. Both his religious and his See also:political views were See also:radical and extreme. At an early See also:period he imbibed deistical opinions, which he promulgated with eagerness. He was also, though a See also:mere boy when the new Federal See also:government was organized in 1789, strongly opposed to the new Constitution of the See also:United States. In See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to assist in asserting the right of resistance to See also:national See also:laws, and to withstand the " encroachments of the See also:administration upon the indisputable rights " of Virginia, he was in 1799 elected as a Republican to the national See also:House of Representatives, of which he was a member, with the exception of two terms (1813–15 and 1817–19), until 1825, and again in 1827-29. After the See also:accession of See also:Jefferson to the See also:presidency in 18o1, Randolph was appointed chairman of the See also:Committee of Ways and Means, and as such was naturally the See also:leader of the Republican See also:majority in the House. He took an active See also:part in agitating for the reform of the judiciary, and in 1804 moved the See also:impeachment of See also:Judge See also:Samuel See also:Chase (q.v.), acting as the leader of See also:prosecution in the trial before the See also:Senate. Though an avowed Republican, he was far from being subservient to his party, and for several years after 18o5 led a small See also:faction, called " Quids," which sharply criticized Jeffersoi's and attempted to prevent the selection of See also:Madison- as the
presidential See also:candidate of his party. In See also:March 1807 he lost the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee. Possessing considerable wit, See also:great readiness, and a showy if some-what bombastic eloquence, he would undoubtedly have risen to high See also:influence but for his strong vein of eccentricity and his See also:bitter and ungovernable See also:temper. The championship of See also:state's rights was carried by him to an extreme utterly quixotic, inasmuch as he not only asserted the constitutional right of Virginia to interpose her protest against the usurpation of See also:power at See also:Washington, but claimed that the protest should be supported by force. From See also:December 1825 to March 1827 he served in the United States Senate, and in See also:April 1826 he was forced to fight a See also:duel with See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay, on See also:account of his violent abuse of that statesman in the course of a debate. In 183o he was sent by See also:President See also:Jackson on a See also:special See also:mission to See also:Russia, but remained in St See also:Petersburg only ten days, then spent almost a See also:year in See also:England, and on his return in See also:October 1831 See also:drew $21,407 from the United States See also:Treasury for his services. He died of See also:consumption at See also:Philadelphia on the 24th of June 1833. Though his political See also:life was full of inconsistencies—he was even capable of advocating the passage of a See also:bill on one See also:day and of opposing the passage of the same bill on the next—he generally adhered to the principles enunciated by the Republican party in its earliest years, and throughout his later career, in numerous speeches, he laboured to bring about the See also:identification of See also:slavery with the theory of states' rights. In this he was the natural precursor of See also:Calhoun. His last will was disputed in the See also:law courts, and the See also:jury returned a See also:verdict that in the later years of his life he was not of sane mind. He was always in theory opposed to slavery, and by the will which was accepted by the courts, freed his own slaves.
The best See also:biography is that by Henry See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, John Randolph (See also:Boston, 1882), in the " American Statesmen See also:Series." There is also a biography, which, however, contains many inaccuracies, by See also:Hugh A. See also:Garland (2 vols., New See also:York, 1851).
End of Article: RANDOLPH, JOHN (1773–1833)
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