Peyton Randolph (governor)

Peyton Randolph (* 1779 in Williamsburg, Virginia, † December 26, 1828 ) was an American politician and from 1811 to 1812 for nine days Governor of Virginia.

Career

Peyton Randolph was a son of Edmund Randolph, who had been from 1779 to 1782 Member of the Continental Congress 1786-1788 and Governor of Virginia. He attended until 1798, the College of William & Mary. He later moved to Richmond, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1809 and 1812 he was a member of the Governing Council, which later became the Senate of Virginia. After the incumbent Governor George William Smith came on December 26, 1811 at a theater fire killed, he had to quit until January 3, 1812 whose term of office. On this day, then the newly elected James Barbour could take office. After his political career, Randolph has been active as a lawyer again. Between 1821 and his death in 1828 he was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Virginia. With his wife Mary Ward he had ten children.