John Randolph: Royalist Attorney of Colonial Virginia

John Randolph

A lawyer, politician, and Loyalist leader from the Colony of Virginia. He served as the King's Attorney for the Colony of Virginia, as Mayor of Williamsburg, and as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Even as the American crisis for independence deepened, he maintained his loyalty to the British Crown and advocated for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain. He left Virginia for Great Britain in 1775 and spent the remainder of his life there. He was also the father of Edmund Randolph, who became the first U.S. Attorney General and second Secretary of State.

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Year	John Randolph
1727	Birth of John Randolph (Period: 1727, Location: Williamsburg (present-day Virginia))
1740	Education at the College of William & Mary (Carter Henry Harrison I, Age: 13 years old, Period: 1740s, Location: Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia)
1750	Marriage to Ariana Jennings (Age: 23 years old, Period: July 26, 1750, Location: Annapolis, Maryland Colony) Marriage (John Randolph, Ariana Jennings, Age: 23 years old, Period: July 26, 1750, Location: Annapolis, Maryland Colony)
1766	Appointment as Attorney General of the Colony of Virginia (John Randolph, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1766–1775, Location: Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia)
1770	Political Conflict with Thomas Jefferson (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1770s–1780s, Location: Virginia, Great Britain) Correspondence with Thomas Jefferson (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1770s–1780s, Location: Great Britain and Virginia)
1771	Assumption of Office as Mayor of Williamsburg (John Randolph, Age: 44 years old, Period: 1771–1772, Location: Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia)
1774	Efforts for Reconciliation between the Colony of Virginia and Great Britain (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1774, Location: Colony of Virginia) Non-participation in the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1774, Location: Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia) Publication of "Considerations on the Present State of Virginia" (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1774, Location: Colony of Virginia)
1775	American Revolutionary War (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775–1783, Location: Mainly the Southern Colonies and Western Appalachia) Exile from Virginia (John Randolph, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775, Location: From Virginia to Scotland/Great Britain) Issue of Property Confiscation and Return (John Randolph, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775–1784, Location: Colony of Virginia, Great Britain) Emigration to Great Britain due to the American Revolutionary War (John Randolph, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775, Location: From Virginia to Scotland/England) Later Years in Great Britain (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1775–1784, Location: England)
1784	Death of John Randolph (Age: 57 years old, Period: January 31, 1784)

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The Randolph Family	Peyton Randolph John Randolph of Roanoke Edmund Jennings Randolph Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. John Randolph
The Harrison Family	Benjamin Harrison V Carter Henry Harrison I William Henry Harrison Carter Bassett Harrison Benjamin Harrison IV
Wars with Indigenous Peoples and Territorial Expansion	Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison John Sevier Isaac Shelby Tecumseh William Weatherford Pushmataha Osceola Sequoyah
Texas annexation	James Knox Polk John Tyler Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Samuel Houston Stephen Fuller Austin

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